CSCI-737-01: Pattern Recognition (Spring 2019)


  RIT Department of Computer Science

CSCI-737-01 Pattern Recognition (Spring 2019)

Instructor Prof. Richard Zanibbi (Contact info)
Office Hrs Tuesday 3:15-4:45pm, Thursday 3:15-3:50pm, Friday 2-3pm (GOL 3551)
Lectures Tuesday and Thursday, 2:00pm - 3:15pm (GOL 1610)

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Schedule


RIT Academic Calendar

Please Note: this schedule is likely to change through the semester.

Readings will be assigned a variety of text and papers available online or through MyCourses. Readings will be announced on the "News" page (see link above).

Week Topics Assignments & Projects Presentations
Classification
1 Overview, Nearest Neighbor Classification
2 Bayesian Decision Theory and Linear Classifiers      A1 due
3 Dimensionality Reduction (PCA, LDA) A2 due
4 Support Vector Machines
5 Ensembles: AdaBoost, Random Forests   
6 Ensembles: CNN and 'Deep' Neural Nets Class. Pres. #1 and #2
Segmentation
7 Segmentation + Clustering (incl. k-means)
(Career Fair W/T)
A3 due
8 Segmentation, continued Proj. 1 assigned
9 [ -- March Break -- ]
10 Object Detection: Joint Class. + Seg.
11 Segmentation, continued Proj. 1 due (Mar 31) Seg. Pres. #1 & #2
Parsing
12 Parsing Overview, Structural Pattern Rec. Proj. 2 assigned A4 due
13 Sequences: HMM, LSTM/BLSTM
14 Hierarchies: Stochastic Context-Free Grammars Proj. 2 due & P3 assigned   A5 due
15 Parsing, Cont'd. Parsing Pres. #1 and #2
16 -- Exam Week -- Final Exam: May 3, 1:30-4pm
17 -- Exam Week -- Proj. 3 due: May 6