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RIT Department of Computer Science
Pattern Recognition (Topics in Artificial Intelligence) Fall 2010 | 
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| 4005-759-01 (Lecture Room: 70-3500 (DPRL lab)), Instructor: Richard Zanibbi | ||
| Office hours: 10-11:00am Tues. and Thurs., 1-3:00pm Fridays (70-3551, Golisano College) |
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Announcements
Week 10
- The final research paper and project 2 are due Nov. 19 at 9am (this is a hard deadline).
- Research paper presentations will be given in-class on Thursday.
- Requirements for the research paper are provided on the Syllabus web page (link above).
Schedule of Topics and Assigned Readings
| Week | Topics | Reading |
| 1 | Overview, Evaluation, Bayes' Decision Theory | Kuncheva, Ch. 1 |
| 2 | Linear Classification, Nearest Neighbor Classification | Kuncheva, Ch. 2 (to page 68) |
| 3 | Decision Trees | Kuncheva Ch 2.4, DHS Ch. 8.1-8.3 |
| 4 | Neural Networks | Kuncheva Ch. 2.5, DHS Ch. 6.8 (Improving Backpropagation), Bishop (2006) Ch. 5.5 (Regularization in NNets) |
| 5 | Support Vector Machines | Bishop 6.2, 7.1 - 7.1.3, DHS 5.11 |
| 6 | Classifier Combination | Kuncheva, Chs. 3, 4.1-4.6 (Voting), 6 (Selection/Gating), 7 (Bagging and Boosting) |
| 7 | Feature Selection, PCA | Theodoridis Ch. 5, Ch. 6.1-6.3 |
| 8 | Clustering (k-Means, Hierarchical, etc.) | DHS 10.4.3, 10.6 |
| 9 | Structural/Syntactic PR | DHS 3.10, DHS 8.6 |
| 10 | Paper Presentations and Summary | |
| 11 | Final Research Paper Due, Friday 9am |