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The following topics are dealt with: Bayesian linear regression; noise reduction; fundamental frequency representation; transformation invariant sparse coding; multi-subject FMRI analysis; metric measurement; robust Fisher descriptors;semisupervised hierarchy learning; HMM-based Tianjin dialect speech synthesis; multi-resolution inversion algorithm; heteroscedastic Gaussian process regression; two stage classifier chain architecture; object detection; brain computer interface; phase-based information decoding; virtual character animation; AM-FM signal separation approach; underdetermined convolutive blind source separation; spontaneous facial expression recognition; superresolution method; semipolynomial Kernel optimization; Maximum Likelihood Approach; graph based partially supervised learning; irregular tree-structured Bayesian network; robust point matching algorithm; data representation; protein subcellular localization prediction; average precision optimization; semi-blind Kurtosis maximization algorithm; multiparametric solution-path algorithm; collaborative learning; collaborative Kalman filters; acoustic surveillance; heterogeneous mixture model; false alarm reduction; Persian language; cloud computing service; patch-based Markov random fields and support vector machine.