Erik Sudderth

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

UC Berkeley, EECS Department
527 Soda Hall #1776
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
Tel: (510) 642-9582

I am a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley, where I work with Professors Michael Jordan and Stuart Russell. My research explores computer vision systems which detect, recognize, and track objects in complex natural scenes. I develop and apply a variety of statistical tools, including graphical models and nonparametric Bayesian methods.
Prior to my arrival at Berkeley, I completed my Ph.D. in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT, working with Professors Alan Willsky and William Freeman.
 

Research & Publications

Projects:

Theses:

Graphical Models for Visual Object Recognition and Tracking.
Doctoral Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2006.
Embedded Trees: Estimation of Gaussian Processes on Graph with Cycles.
Masters Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Feb. 2002.

Papers:

Describing Visual Scenes Using Transformed Objects and Parts.
E. Sudderth, A. Torralba, W. Freeman, and A. Willsky.
To appear in the International Journal of Computer Vision, 2007.
Loop Series and Bethe Variational Bounds in Attractive Graphical Models.
E. Sudderth, M. Wainwright, and A. Willsky.
To appear at Neural Information Processing Systems, Dec. 2007.
Learning Multiscale Representations of Natural Scenes Using Dirichlet Processes.
J. Kivinen, E. Sudderth, and M. Jordan.
To appear at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, Oct. 2007.
Image Denoising with Nonparametric Hidden Markov Trees.
J. Kivinen, E. Sudderth, and M. Jordan.
To appear at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Sep. 2007.
Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes for Tracking Maneuvering Targets.
E. Fox, E. Sudderth, and A. Willsky.
To appear at the International Conference on Information Fusion, July 2007.
Depth from Familiar Objects: A Hierarchical Model for 3D Scenes.
E. Sudderth, A. Torralba, W. Freeman, and A. Willsky.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition, June 2006.
Describing Visual Scenes using Transformed Dirichlet Processes.
E. Sudderth, A. Torralba, W. Freeman, and A. Willsky.
Neural Information Processing Systems, Dec. 2005.
Learning Hierarchical Models of Scenes, Objects, and Parts.
E. Sudderth, A. Torralba, W. Freeman, and A. Willsky.
International Conference on Computer Vision, Oct. 2005.
Distributed Occlusion Reasoning for Tracking with Nonparametric Belief Propagation.
E. Sudderth, M. Mandel, W. Freeman, and A. Willsky.
Neural Information Processing Systems, Dec. 2004.
Embedded Trees: Estimation of Gaussian Processes on Graphs with Cycles.
E. Sudderth, M. Wainwright, and A. Willsky.
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 52(11), Nov. 2004.
An earlier version appeared as MIT LIDS Technical Report 2562, Apr. 2003.
Visual Hand Tracking Using Nonparametric Belief Propagation.
E. Sudderth, M. Mandel, W. Freeman, and A. Willsky.
Workshop on Generative Model Based Vision, CVPR, June 2004.
Efficient Multiscale Sampling from Products of Gaussian Mixtures.
A. Ihler, E. Sudderth, W. Freeman, and A. Willsky.
Neural Information Processing Systems, Dec. 2003.
Nonparametric Belief Propagation.
E. Sudderth, A. Ihler, W. Freeman, and A. Willsky.
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition, June 2003.
An earlier version appeared as MIT LIDS Technical Report 2551, Oct. 2002.
Projection Algebra Analysis of Error-Correcting Codes.
J. Yedidia, E. Sudderth, and J-P. Bouchaud.
Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Oct. 2001.
Tree-Based Modeling and Estimation of Gaussian Processes on Graphs with Cycles.
M. Wainwright, E. Sudderth, and A. Willsky.
Neural Information Processing Systems, Dec. 2000.
 

Teaching

UCB CS294: Practical Machine Learning
Guest Lecturer, Fall 2006

MIT 6.432: Stochastic Processes, Detection, & Estimation
Teaching Assistant, Spring 2004

MIT 6.454: Graduate Seminar in Communication, Control, & Signal Processing
Student Co-organizer, Fall 2003

MIT 6.801/6.866: Machine Vision
Teaching Assistant, Fall 2002