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01.05.2008

Files for In-Class Exercise on 01.04.2008 are now posted.

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12.05.2007

Doctoral standing is not required to register for this course.

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Instructor: Shishir Shah

Office: PGH 564

Office Hours: M 12:00-1:00pm

Class Location: PGH 232

Class Hours: M 1:00-4:00pm

Phone: 713-743-3360

Email: shah@cs.uh.edu

TA: Apurva Gala

TA Hours: TBA

TA Office: PGH 550E

Email: avbedagk@mail.uh.edu

schedule

THIS IS A TENTATIVE SCHEDULE AND WILL BE UPDATED AS THE SEMESTER STARTS

LECTURE NOTES WILL BE UPDATED HERE

TIMELINEMATERIAL COVERED
WEEK 1 Introduction, overview of basic statistics and image processing, statistical pattern recognition. Lecture Notes: Introduction, Probability Review.
  Reading: DHS Chapter 1, Paper by Jain, A.K.; Duin, P.W.; Jianchang Mao, Statistical pattern recognition: a review, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol 22, no 1, pp. 4-37, Jan. 2000.
WEEK 2 Bayes decision theory, two-category classification, minimum error-rate classification, decision surfaces and discriminant functions. Lecture Notes: Decisions.
 Reading: DHS Chapter 2.1-2.6.
WEEK 3Error probabilities and integrals, normal density and its discriminant functions.
  Reading: DHS Chapter 2.7-2.8. In-Class Exercise: m-Files, Paper by P. Domingos and M. Pazzani, On the Optimality of the Simple Bayesian Classifier Under Zero-One Loss, Machine Learning, vol. 29, pp. 103-130, 1997.
WEEK 4 Discrete cases classification, independent features, supervised learning and parameter estimations, maximum likelihood estimation. Lecture Notes: Learning. In-Class Exercise Solution: m-Files.
  Reading: DHS Chapter 2.9-2.10, 3.1-3.3, Assigned papers for presentation, Paper Presentation Pointers
WEEK 5Bayes classifier and class-conditional densities, Bayesian learning, sufficient statistics. Lecture Notes: Learning II.
  Reading: DHS Chapter 3.4-3.7, Assigned papers for presentation.
WEEK 6 Nonparametric techniques, Nearest neighbor estimations, Fisher's discriminant and multiple discriminant analysis. Lecture Notes: Learning III.
 Reading: DHS Chapter 4.1-4.7. In-Class Exercise Solution: m-Files.
WEEK 7Spring Break.
WEEK 8Research readings discussions.
 Readings: DHS Chapter 3.8-3.9, assigned papers.
WEEK 9Linear discriminant functions, generalized functions, minimum squared error procedures. Lecture Notes: Discriminant Functions.
 Reading: DHS Chapter 5.1-5.8, Assigned papers for presentation.
WEEK 10Unsupervised learning, maximum likelihood, similarity measures, clustering, dimensionality and its reduction.
  Reading: DHS Chapter 10.1-10.11.
WEEK 11Research readings discussions.
  Reading: Assigned papers.
WEEK 12Single layer networks, Multi-layer perceptrons, feed-forward mapping, weight-space symmetries, projection pursuit, back-propagation.
  Reading: B Chapter 3.1-3.6, 4.1-4.10.
WEEK 13Radial Basis functions, exact interpolation, training, regularization, regression, classification, comparison.
 Reading: B Chapter 5.1-5.10.
WEEK 14Final Project presentations.