Pattern Recognition

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CAP 5638

Pattern Recognition

Spring 2012

Note: The required textbook for this course is

"Pattern Classification" by Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart, and David G. Stork, 2nd Edition.

The book is available on Amazon.com at $93.24 for a new copy; used and new are also available at $55.00 (and more) from other sellers available on Amazon.com. The book should be available in the FSU bookstore.

Special Note for Non-Computer Science Students: If you have the necessary background and like to register for this class (even when it is full), please email the instructor (liux@cs.fsu.edu) with a brief summary of your background and then you will be added to the class by the Computer Science Department if you have the necessary background.

Syllabus (PDF version)

Useful links and online information

UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository.
Computer Vision Home Page
Face recognition homepage.
A Java Applet for computing Voronoi diagrams.
Statistical Pattern Recognition Toolbox.
Introduction to Probability -- Charles Grinstead and Laurie Snell.
Kernel Methods Homepage.
Introduction to Support Vector Machines.
DARPA Urban Challenge.
Journal of Machine Learning Research.
IEEExplore provides provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE Standards.
ACM Digital Library.
The Apache SpamAssassin Project.
Matlab online documents.
Introduction to Matlab ( http://ie.tamu.edu/people/faculty/butenko/INEN623/matlab.pdf).
Octave (similar to Matlab but is free).
The Weka Web Site.
Pattern Theory Group.
National Human Genome Research Institute.
Convolutional neural networks.
OpenDT (Decision tree and decision tree ensembles).
Commercial Tools for Bayesian Networks: HUGIN.
Commercial Tools for Bayesian Networks: AgenaRisk.
Bayesian Net Toolbox.
IBM Watson.
Building Watson.
Autonomous Car Driving through heavy City Traffic.

Important dates

Class meeting time: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 9:05AM-9:55AM

News and Announcements

The course number is CAP 5638.
Class meeting time: 09:05AM-09:55AM
Meeting location: LOV 301

Handouts

The lecture notes along with additional handouts are available from the Weekly Calendar Page.

Assignments and Solutions

The assignments with their due dates are listed at from the Weekly Calendar Page; solutions will be made available as hardcopy.

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