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Course Outline, ECE662 Spring 2010 Prof. Mimi

Note: This is an approximate outline that is subject to change throughout the semester.


Lecture Topic
1 1. Introduction
1 2. What is pattern Recognition
2-3 3. Finite vs Infinite feature spaces
4-5 4. Bayes Rule
6-10

5. Discriminant functions

  • Definition;
  • Application to normally distributed features;
  • Error analysis.
11-13

6. Parametric Density Estimation

  • Maximum likelihood estimation
  • Bayesian parameter estimation
13-19

7. Non-parametric Density Estimation

  • Parzen Windows
  • K-nearest neighbors
  • The nearest neighbor classification rule.
19,20,21,22 8. Linear Discriminants

9. Non-Linear Discriminant functions

  • Support Vector Machines 
  • Artificial Neural Networks
  • Decision Trees
10. Clustering



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