Lecture 1
Relevant Book Sections
Sections 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 of Duda, Hart and Stork: Pattern Classification
Additional Material
Probability Refresher
(a more precise version of the material covered in class)The proof of the optimality of the Bayes Decision Rule
(Step-by-step, the way it should have been)Useful Links and References
A.K. Jain, R.P.W. Duin and J. Mao, ``Statistical Pattern Recognition: A Review,'' IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 22(1):2000, pp. 4--36.Interesting recent review paper covering many of the aspects of the field we will address in detail in the course. Available through the IEEE Digital Library