|  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) | 
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