CSCI-737-01 Pattern Recognition (Spring 2015) |
Week 15Week 14
- Project 3 is due (HARD deadline) next Thursday (exam week) at 11:59pm.
- Please fill out the course evaluation forms, and provide comments about what worked in the course, and what might be improved in future offerings of the course.
- We will have the final set of project presentations and project decissions in-class this week.
Week 13
- Slides on the CYK Algorithm from UC Davis (D. Rodriguez-Velazquez): slides.
- Please sign up for your group's project presentation (Assignment 5, Doodle poll).
- Project 3 is due (HARD deadline) Thursday of exam week at 11:59pm.
- Please fill out the course evaluation forms, and provide comments about what worked in the course, and what might be improved in future offerings of the course.
Week 12
- Fun interactive CYK parsing demonstration (which supports defining different grammars): Demo (hit refresh to return to the page containing the grammar definition, which will be unaltered after refreshing the page)
- Please sign up for your group's project presentation (Assignment 5, Doodle poll).
- Project 3 has been posted on MyCourses, and is due (HARD deadline) Thursday of exam week at 11:59pm.
- Please fill out the course evaluation forms, and provide comments about what worked in the course, and what might be improved in future offerings of the course.
- Extension: Project 2 is due Wednesday at 11:59pm.
- The last round of paper presentations will be given in-class this Friday.
- Requirements for the final project presentation (Assignment 5) and project will be posted later this week.
Week 11
- Project 2 is due this Sunday (Apr. 26th)
- Papers for presentation next Friday (on Parsing) have been posted on MyCourses.
- Change to Assignments: Assignment 5 will be an in-class presentation of each group's project in the last two weeks of class (10 mins./group).
- A reading on Hidden Markov Models (from Duda, Hart and Stork's text) has been posting on MyCourses under "References."
Week 10
- Assignment 4 is due on Friday.
- Paper on Parsing (Part I) will be presented in-class this Friday.
- Project 2 is due next Sunday, Apr. 26th.
Week 9
- Papers on Segmentation (Part II) will be presented in-class on Friday, along with one Wed. of Week 11 (A. Hollenbach and S. Song).
- Project 2 (segmenting and classifying handwritten math symbols) has been posted, and is due Sunday Apr. 26th.
- Assignment 4 has been posted, and is due next Friday.
- Papers on Parsing (Part I) will be posted this week, and will be presented next Friday in-class (for the 'Group 1' students).
Week 8
- Extension: Project 1 is due Sunday by 11:59pm.
- A reference implementation for Assignment 2 has been posted on MyCourses.
- The second set of papers on Segmentation will be posted later this week.
- A4 will be moved up by a week - this will cover topics related to segmentation and feature selection.
- Reading: See the Casey and Lecolinet paper under "References" on MyCourses, talking about different approaches to character segmentation.
Week 7
- Assignment 3 is due Monday at 11:59pm.
- The first set of papers on segmentation will be presented in-class on Friday.
- Project 1 is due Friday, April 3rd of Week 10 (the Friday after break).
Week 6
- Papers on Segmentation for presentation next Friday have been posted. The Doodle poll for selecting papers is located here.
- Extension: Assignment 3 is due Monday of Week 8.
- Project 1 is due Friday, April 3rd (Week 10).
- Papers for the first student presentations on Segmentation research will be posted this Friday. Students that presented for the first set of papers on Classification will present the papers next week.
- Slides and readings on PCA and LDA have been posted on MyCourses.
- LgEval and CROHMELib on the CS computers: change your bash shell environment (the .bash_profile file in your home directory) to include the following commands at the bottom of the file:
export LgEvalDir=/usr/local/dcs/versions/lgeval-0.3.2
export CROHMELibDir=/usr/local/dcs/versions/crohmelib-0.1.2
export PATH=$PATH:$CROHMELibDir/bin:$LgEvalDir/bin:/usr/local/dcs/versions/txl10.6a.linux/bin
If this doesn't work, please let Prof. Zanibbi know ASAP.Week 5
- Please read the Criminisi et al. paper on Random Forests, Chs. 2 and 3 and the reading on SVMs (by Bishop).. The readings are available under "References" on MyCourses.
- Project 1 has been posted, and is due Friday April 3rd at 11:59pm (Week 10). Teams should register on the project team Doodle page and start testing the visualization and evaluation tools ASAP. It is easy to simulate recognition errors by changing labels in .lg files (remember to use the simpler Object-Relationship format), or to test files against themselves (i.e. 'perfect' recognition).
- The second group of classification paper presentations will be given in-class on Friday. Presenters should upload their slides as a .pdf file before the start of class.
- Assignment 3 will be given out on Friday, and due Friday of next week (Week 7).
Week 4
- Assignment 2 is due on Friday.
- Grades for Assignment 1 and the first round of presentations have been posted - please read the general comments in addition to notes provided regarding your own grade.
- Project 1 and the second set of Classification papers for presentation will be posted on Friday. Both the project and the presentation will require students to work in teams of two.
- Additional readings on AdaBoost will be available by mid-afternoon Monday. These will be covered this week.
Week 3
- Assignment 2 has been posted, and is due next Friday.
- Research Paper Presentations: The first group of research papers related to classification will be presented in-class this Friday. Presenters, please remember to submit your slides as a .pdf file through MyCourses.
- Please read Ch. 1 of Schapire and Freund's book 'Boosting,' available through MyCourses.
Week 2
- Research Paper Presentations: The write-up for the first set of paper presentations on Classification in weeks 4 and 6 is now available under 'Assignments' on MyCourses, along with the Doodle Poll for selecting papers.
- Reading: Please read Chs. 1, 2 and 4 of "Quinlan's C4.5: Programs for Machine Learning," available through MyCourses. You can skip Ch. 1.2, although you may find the historical perspective interesting (the book was published in 1992).
- The Doodle poll for paper presentations next Friday are now available online.
- Lectures on Wednesday and Friday of this week will be given by Kenny Davila, as Prof. Zanibbi will be away at a conference.
Week 1
- Assignment 1 is due Friday at 11:59pm. The dropbox will close at 11:59pm on Sunday evening.
- Assigned Reading (Wed.): Ch. 2 of the Duin et al. book "Classification, Parameter Estimation and State Estimation." The nuts and bolts data set referred to in the reading has been provided on MyCourses.
- ipython, python3.4 should be updated for the Computer Science computers sometime soon.
- Assignment 1 has been posted on MyCourses. The assignment is due next Friday Feb. 6th at 11:59pm. Please remember that the dropbox will close at 11:59pm on Sunday Feb. 8th.
- Readings are available under "Resources" through MyCourses.
- Assigned Reading (Friday): Please read Ch. 1 and Chs. 2.1-2.3 in The Elements of Statistical Learning before class on Friday.