Nathan Sprague   -   Research

Refereed Publications

• Dana Ballard and Nathan Sprague. On the role of embodiment in modelling natural behaviors. In Wayne D. Gray, editor, Integrated Models of Cognitive Systems, pages 283–296. Oxford University Press, 2007.
• Nathan Sprague. Basis iteration for reward based dimensionality reduction. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), London, July 2007. (PDF)
• Nathan Sprague, Dana Ballard, and Al Robinson. Modeling embodied visual behaviors. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 4(2), July 2007. (PDF)
• Nathan Sprague and Dana Ballard. Eye movements for reward maximization. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15, 2003. (PDF)
• Nathan Sprague and Dana Ballard. Multiple-goal reinforcement learning with modular sarsa(0). In Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-03), Acapulco, Mexico, August 2003. (PDF)
• Nathan Sprague and Jiebo Luo. Clothed people detection in still images. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Quebec City, Canada, August 2002. (PDF)
• Nathan Sprague and Dana Ballard. A visual control architecture for a virtual humanoid. In 2nd IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Tokyo, November 2001. (PDF)

Workshop Presentations, Technical Reports etc.

• Nathan Sprague. Neighborhood components analysis for reward­-based dimensionality reduction. In Workshop on Grounding Perception, Knowledge and Cognition in Sensori­Motor Experience, 20th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, December 2006.
• Nathan Sprague. Reinforcement learning for visually guided control. In Workshop on Learning in Computer Vision, 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Pittsburgh, July 2005.
• Nathan Sprague. Learning to Coordinate Visual Behaviors. PhD thesis, University of Rochester Computer Science Department, 2004. (PDF)
• Nathan Sprague and Dana Ballard. Multiple-goal reinforcement learning with modular sarsa(0). Technical Report 798, University of Rochester Computer Science Dept., 2003. (This is a longer version of the IJCAI paper.). (PDF)
• Dana Ballard and Nathan Sprague. Attentional resource allocation in extended natural tasks [abstract]. Journal of Vision, 2(7):568, 2002.
• Nathan Sprague and Dana Ballard. Modeling human visual attention using a graphical humanoid agent. In Robotics as Theoretical Biology Workshop at the Seventh International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Edinburgh, 2002.

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