ELEN E6880              Summer 2003
Statistical Pattern Recognition
Class Links
  CVN page for the class



Project Home Page


Lectures 

The material for the lectures include foils, lecture notes, links to additional material, and references. 

1. Probability
2. Introduction
3. Linear Discriminants 
4. Neural Networks
5. Parametric Methods
6. Kernel Methods 
7. Feature Selection 
8. Nearest Neighbor 
9. Tree Classifiers 
10. SVMs 
11. Boosting, etc.
12. Bayesian Nets 
13. Unsup. Learning
14. Comparing...

Instructor
Vittorio Castelli
vittorio@us.ibm.com 
(914) 945-2396
The class was taught in collaboration with
Mark Brodie
(the other official instructor)
mbrodie@us.ibm.com 
(914)784-7484
Irina Rish
rish@us.ibm.com 
(914)784-7431
Daniel Oblinger
oblinger@us.ibm.com 
(914) 945-2326
Announcements
05/29/03  Most of the material for lecture 1 is more advanced than what you need for the class - do not get scared by it!

Useful Links

          On-Line Resources
          Glossary of Machine Learning-Statistical Classification Terms
          First 8 chapters of the Book
Grading Policy
There are 4 components to the grade for the class
  • Homework:  30%
  • Midterm:       25%
  • Final:             35%
  • Project:         15% for solving the first part, 10% for solving the second part
Note that the overall grade without the second part of the project is 105%, namely, the project gives student 5% bonus points.  Students desiring to do additional work to improve their grade are encouraged to try part 2 of the project.   The grading policy for this second part of the project is going to be more strict than the first part: in other words, only students who are really serious about the additional work should undertake it.