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authorJon Whiteaker <jbw@berkeley.edu>2012-09-20 19:51:48 -0700
committerJon Whiteaker <jbw@berkeley.edu>2012-10-21 19:48:21 -0700
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small fixes to algorithms
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@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ observation $\bx$, the model predicts $\hat{y} = \arg\max_y P(y | \bx)$, where:
\Sigma)P(y)}
\end{equation}
In this setting, the decision boundary between two classes $y_1$ and $y_2$:
-$\set{\bx | P(\bx, y_1) = P(\bx, y_2)}$ is an hyperplane \cite{bishop06pattern}
+$\set{\bx | P(\bx, y_1) = P(\bx, y_2)}$ is a hyperplane \cite{bishop06pattern}
and the mixture of Gaussians model can be viewed as a probabilistic variant of
the nearest-neighbor (NN) classifier in Section~\ref{sec:uniqueness}.
@@ -79,14 +79,14 @@ and the higher the precision.
\subsection{Sequential hypothesis testing}
\label{sec:SHT}
-In our setting (see \xref{sec:experiment-design}), skeletons measurements
+In our setting (see \xref{sec:experiment-design}), skeleton measurements
are not isolated. On the contrary, everytime a person walks in front of the
camera we get a set of time-indexed measurements belonging to the same
individual that we want to classify. The mixture of Gaussians model can be
extended to temporal inference through through the Sequential hypothesis
testing \cite{wald47sequential} framework. In this framework, a subject is
-sequentially tested for belonging to one of several class, by assuming that
-conditioned on the class, the measurements are independent realisations of the
+sequentially tested for belonging to one of several classes, by assuming that
+conditioned on the class, the measurements are independent realizations of the
same random variable. In our case, the probability that the sequence of data
$\bx^{(1)}, \dots, \bx^{(t)}$ belongs to the class $y$ at time $t$ is given by:
\begin{equation}\label{eq:SHT}
@@ -104,5 +104,5 @@ prediction is accepted when the classifier is confident, that is $P(\hat{y}
Sequential hypothesis testing is a common technique for smoothing temporal
predictions. In particular, note that the prediction at time $t$ depends on all
data up to time $t$. This reduces the variance of predictions, especially when
-input data are noisy, such as in the domain of skeleton recognition.
+input data is noisy, such as in the domain of skeleton recognition.