CAREER: A Foundation for Applied Machine Learning

本项目旨在为机器学习在实践中的应用奠定基础。研究部分有两个目标。首先，开发数据收集和细化方法，使机器学习算法能够从数据中提取结构。其次，对机器学习算法进行实证和理论分析，以加深对当前和新方法的理解，并揭示数据集的特征，使其适用于特定的学习算法。该项目的教育部分旨在通过提供对各种学习算法可以检测的结构类型的更深入理解，通过创建收集数据的工具，通过为学生提供在实践中应用机器学习的经验，以及通过跨学科的研究项目，为从业者提供在实践中成功应用机器学习所需的基础。这些研究和教育活动是在几个应用领域的背景下进行的，包括从遥感数据绘制地球的全球土地覆盖，基于内容的高分辨率CAT扫描肺部图像检索，学习检测计算机安全异常，以及行星数据的机载处理。除了对应用机器学习的贡献之外，该项目还具有将机器学习成功应用于所提出的应用领域的好处，这将对医学、计算机系统开发和地理领域产生重大贡献。http://mow.ecn.purdue.edu/ brodley /

This project aims to provide a foundation for applying machine learning in practice. The research component has two goals. Firstly, to develop data collection and refinement methods that allow machine learning algorithm to extract structure from data. Secondly, to perform empirical and theoretical analyses of machine learning algorithms to develop a deeper understanding of current and new methods, and to uncover the characteristics of datasets that make them amenable to particular learning algorithms. The education component of this project aims to provide practitioners with the foundation required to apply machine learning successfully in practice by providing a deeper understanding of the type of structure that various learning algorithms can detect, by creating tools for collecting data, by giving students hands on experience applying machine learning in practice, and through inter-disciplinary research projects. These research and education activities are being performed in the context of several application domains, including mapping global land cover of the Earth from remotely sensed data, content-based image retrieval of high resolution CAT scans of the lung, learning to detect anomalies for computer security, and on-board processing of planetary data. In addition to its contribution to applied machine learning, this project has the benefit that the successful application of machine learning to proposed application domains will result in non-trivial contributions to medicine, computer systems development, and geography. http://mow.ecn.purdue.edu/ brodley/