[cubedice]

the MSR video of decision-tree based body recognition/segmentation was pretty neat http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/145347/CVPR%202011%20-%20... . is there a list of good applications of this technique besides credit checks and face recognizers?

[chwolfe]

Decision trees have proven to be sucessful in direct marketing/ecommerce applications such as incremental response modeling. Because of their explicit nature, decision trees trees can be used for workflow optimization in industrial environments as well.