2011-2012 University Catalog 
  
2011-2012 University Catalog

CS 775 - Advanced Pattern Recognition

Credits: 3 (NR)
Covers statistical pattern recognition, neural network, and statistical learning theory approaches. Topics include decision theory and Bayes’ theorem, density (parametric and nonparametric) estimation, linear and nonlinear discriminant analysis, SVM and kernel methods, SRM and model selection, performance evaluation, mixture of experts (AdaBoost), dimensionality reduction, feature selection and extraction, and clustering. Emphasizes experimental design, applications, and performance evaluation.

Prerequisite(s): CS 688 or permission of instructor.

Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week: 3
Hours of Lab or Studio per week: 0