Publications

Journal Papers:

• Semi-supervised Learning on Riemannian Manifolds  [ps, pdf]
  Mikhail Belkin, Partha Niyogi
  Machine Learning, Special Issue on Clustering, to appear.

• Locality Pursuit Embedding
  Wanli Min, Ke Lu, and Xiaofei He
  Pattern Recognition Journal, Volume 37, Issue 4, Pages 781-788, 2004.

• Bayesian Shape Localization for Face Recognition Using Global and Local Textures
  Shuicheng Yan, Xiaofei He, Yuxiao Hu, Hong-Jiang Zhang, Mingjing Li, and Qiansheng Cheng
  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol 14, No. 1, Jan 2004.

• Laplacian Eigenmaps for Dimensionality Reduction and Data Representation  [ps, pdf]
  Mikhail Belkin, Partha Niyogi
  Neural Computation, June 2003; 15 (6):1373-1396.

• Learning a Semantic Space from User's Relevance Feedback for Image Retrieval
  Xiaofei He, Oliver King, Wei-Ying Ma, Mingjing Li, Hong-Jiang Zhang
  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol 13, No. 1, Jan 2003.

Conference Proceedings:

• Regression and Regularization on Large Graphs [ps, pdf]
  Mikhail Belkin, Irina Matveeva, Partha Niyogi
  COLT 2004

• Organizaing WWW Images Based on the Analysis of Page Layout and Web Link Structure
  Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Wei-Ying Ma, Ji-Rong Wen, and Hong-Jiang Zhang
  IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Taipei (ICME 2004), Taiwan, June 2004.
• On the Convergence of Spectral Clustering on Random Samples: the Normalized Case [ps, pdf]
  U. Luxburg, O. Bousquet, Mikhail Belkin
  COLT 2004

• Using Manifold Structure for Partially Labeled Classification  [ps, pdf]
  Mikhail Belkin, Partha Niyogi
  in S. Becker, S. Thrun and K. Obermayer (eds:) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15,
  MIT Press, Cambridge, 2003.

• Locality Preserving Projections
  Xiaofei He, and Partha Niyogi
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16 (NIPS 2003), Vancouver, Canada, 2003.

• Learning a Locality Preserving Subspace for Visual Recognition
  Xiaofei He, Shuicheng Yan, Yuxiao Hu, and Hong-Jiang Zhang
  IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2003), Nice, France, 2003.

• Knowing a Tree from the Forest: Art Image Retrieval using a Society of Profiles
  Kai Yu, Wei-Ying Ma, Volker Tresp, Z. Xu, Xiaofei He, Hong-Jiang Zhang, H.-P. Kriegel
  ACM conference on Multimedia 2003.

• ImageRank: Spectral Techniques for Structural Analysis of Image Database
  Xiaofei He, Wei-Ying Ma, and Hong-Jiang Zhang
  IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Baltimore (ICME 2003), USA, July 2003.

• Learning and Inferring a Semantic Space from User's Relevance Feedback for Image Retrieval
  Xiaofei He, Wei-Ying Ma, Oliver King, Mingjing Li, and Hong-Jiang Zhang
  ACM conference on Multimedia 2002

• Laplacian Eigenmaps and Spectral Techniques for Embedding and Clustering  [ps, pdf]
  Mikhail Belkin, Partha Niyogi
  in T.G. Diettrich, S. Becker and Z. Ghahramani (eds:) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14,
  pages 585-591, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2002.

• Using Eigenvectors of the Bigram Graph to Infer Morpheme Identity  [ps, pdf]
  Mikhail Belkin, John Goldsmith
  Morphological and Phonological Learning: Proceedings of the 6th Workshop
  of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Phonology (SIGPHON), Philadelphia, July 2002, pp. 41-47.

Theses

• Problems of Learning on Manifolds   [ps, pdf]
  Mikhail Belkin
  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago, Dept. of Mathematics, 2003.

• Laplacian Eigenmaps for Image Retrieval
  Xiaofei He
  Master's thesis, Computer Science Department, The University of Chicago, 2002.

Technical Reports:

• Regression and Regularization on Large Graphs [link]
  Mikhail Belkin, Irina Matveeva, Partha Niyogi
  The University of Chicago CS Technical Report TR-2003-11.

• Semi-supervised learning on manifolds [link]
  Mikhail Belkin, Partha Niyogi
  The University of Chicago CS Technical Report TR-2002-12.

• Locality Preserving Projections [link]
  Xiaofei He, Partha Niyogi. 29 October, 2002.
  The University of Chicago CS Technical Report TR-2002-09.

• Laplacian Eigenmaps for Dimensionality Reduction and Data Representation [link]
  Mikhail Belkin, Partha Niyogi
  The University of Chicago CS Technical Report TR-2002-01.