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> ICML 2004 workshop
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> The Physiological Data Modeling Contest (PDMC)
> A Machine Learning Challenge
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> July 8th, 2004
> Banff, Alberta, Canada
> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/sherstov/pdmc
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> Physiological data offers many challenges to the machine learning
> community including dealing with large amounts of data, sequential
> data, issues of sensor fusion, and a rich domain complete with noise,
> hidden variables, and significant effects of context.
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> The Physiological Data Modeling Contest (PDMC) will challenge
> participants to exhibit machine learning algorithms for classification
> and regression on data taken using BodyMedia (www.bodymedia.com)
> wearable body monitors. These devices collect and store continuous
> data from multiple sensors packaged in an unobtrusive armband.
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> To enable this contest, BodyMedia is providing a rich dataset
> comprising several months of data from more than two dozen
> subjects. Features include raw data such as skin temperature, heat
> flux, galvanic skin response, and vital statistics of the user. The
> tasks include detecting classes of activity being engaged in by the
> user (e.g. walking, sleeping, watching TV, etc.) based on the values
> of these features. The training data is available now; the test data
> will be released approximately four weeks before the workshop; and the
> competitors will submit entries consisting of predictions for this test
> data shortly before ICML 2004.
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> At the workshop, the performance of each entrant will be announced and
> the various techniques discussed and analyzed in detail. A small prize
> will be awarded to the winning competitors. Entrants will be invited
> to contribute papers describing their approaches to a special issue of
> a technical journal or magazine.
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> The intended audience is machine learning researchers and professors
> currently teaching machine learning classes.
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> Complete details are available on the contest website:
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> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/sherstov/pdmc
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> Important dates (tentative)
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> NOW: Send your expression of interest to the organizers
> NOW: ICML workshop registration
> 1 June : Test data set released and announced
> 18 June : Entry submission deadline
> 8 July : Workshop/results
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> Organizers
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> David Andre, dandre@BodyMedia.com, BodyMedia, Inc. (co-chair)
> Peter Stone, pstone@cs.utexas.edu, UT Austin (co-chair)
> Alexander Sherstov, sherstov@cs.utexas.edu, UT Austin
> Maxence Crossley, max@BodyMedia.com, BodyMedia, Inc.
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> Peter Stone, Assistant Professor, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
> Department of Computer Sciences phone: 512-471-9796
> The University of Texas at Austin fax: 512-471-8885
> 1 University Station C0500 pstone@cs.utexas.edu
> Austin, Texas 78712-0233 U.S.A. www.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone
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