Schedule

Pattern Recognition (Spring 2020)

Schedule

Please Note: this schedule is likely to change during the semester.
Wk  Topics Deliverables Notes Readings 
Classification
1 Overview, Nearest Neighbor Classification
Linear Classification
First Class: Tues, Jan. 14Hastie, Chs. 1, 2.1-2.3
2 Bayesian Decision Theory  

Duin, Ch. 2
3
A1 due
4  Dimensionality Reduction (PCA, LDA)Th: C. Papers #1 

5
A2 due
Proj. 1 assigned


6 SVMs  Th: C. Papers #2
Criminisi et al., pp. 86-130
7 Random Forests
Career Fair (W/T: Feb. 26 & 27)
Segmentation
8 End of Class. & Segmentation, Part I  **Proj. 1 due
DHS Ch. 10 clustering
excerpts
9 March Break
No Classes 
10 March Break (extended) 
No Classes 
11 Object detection,  Part I
Th: S. Papers #1
Proj. 2 assigned


12 Object detection, Part II Th: S. Papers #2
A3 due

Parsing
13 Parsing Overview, HMMs, SCFGs

14 Parsing Sequences: LSTM/BLSTM Th: P. Papers #1
**Proj. 2 due



15Parsing Graphs Th: P. Papers #2
 A4 due
**Proj. 3 assigned
 Last Class: Thurs, Apr. 23rd
16 (Exams: no classes)
Exam: Fri May 1, 1:30-4pm,
17 (Exams: no classes) **Proj. 3 due: 
Tues May 5