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Department of Computer Science
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Instructor: Richard Zanibbi, Office hours: 2-3:50pm Tuesdays and Thursdays, Room 70-3551 (Golisano College)
Lectures: 10-11:50am Tuesdays and Thursdays, Room 70-2590 (Golisano College)
Groups for seminar presentations are indicated below using last names in alphabetical order. Please note that this schedule will be updated during the quarter.
| Week | Topics | Readings | Notes
| 1 | Overview, Evaluating Classifiers | Ch. 1 |
| 2 | Bayesian Decision Theory | Ch. 2 |
| 3 | Parameter Estimation: Maximum Likelihood | Ch. 3 | Thurs: Paper proposal due
| 4 | Nonparametric Methods (e.g. nearest neighbor) | Ch. 4
| | Defelice, Hays, Pillay (slides) | 4.1 - 4.3
| | Rezenbrink, Robble, D. Roberts (slides) | 4.4 - 4.5
| | Mao, Wang, Yu (slides, refs, Active Contour Paper) | 4.6, 4.7, 4.9
| 5 | Linear and Quadratic Classifiers, SVMs | Ch. 5 | Thurs: Project proposal due
| | Busser, Karthigeyan, O. Roberts (slides, additional notes) | 5.1 - 5.4
| | Nicolosi, Santhanam (slides, Wan paper, Khardon and Wachmann paper) | 5.5 - 5.7
| | Defelice, Hays, Pillay (slides) | 5.8 - 5.9, 5.11
| 6 | Neural Networks and Parameter Estimation | Ch. 6 | Thurs: Midterm (1 hr)
| | Rezenbrink, Robble, D. Roberts (slides) | 6.1 - 6.3
| | Mao, Wang, Yu (slides) | 6.4 - 6.6
| 7 | Classifier Combination | Ch. 9 | Thurs: Last day to submit paper draft
| Busser, Karthigeyan, O. Roberts (slides, paper) | 9.3 - 9.5
| | Nicolosi, Santhanam (slides , notes, papers: first, second, third) | Kuncheva 4.1 - 4.4
| Defelice, Hays, Pillay (slides) | Kuncheva 5.1 - 5.3
| 8 | Clustering | Ch. 10 |
| | Rezenbrink, Robble, D. Roberts (slides) | 10.1 - 10.4.3
| | Mao, Wang, Yu (slides) | 10.5, 10.7
| | Busser, Karthigeyan, O. Roberts (slides) | 10.9 - 10.10, 10.14
| 9 | Syntactic Pattern Recognition,
Review | Fu, Schalkoff texts | Thurs: Project report due
| | Nicolosi, Santhanam (slides, paper 1, paper 2) | TBA: see Prof. Zanibbi
| 10 | Project Summary, Research Paper Presentations | | Thurs: Final paper due
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