3 Credit Hour Course
Intended For Level 4 Term 2 Students
Prerequisite:
Pattern Recognition: introduction, importance; Statistical and Neural Pattern Recognition: Bayesian classifier, Bayes decision theory, discriminant functions and decision surfaces; Bayesian classifier for normal distributions; Linear classifiers: discriminant functions and decision hyperplanes, Perceptron algorithm and its variants, Kessler’s construction; Nonlinear classifiers: two and three layer perceptrons, backpropagation algorithm and its variants; Template matching: optimal path searching techniques, dynamic programming methods, correlation based matching and 2D log search algorithm for image matching; Context dependent classification: Viterbi algorithm, channel equalization, observable and hidden Markov models, three problems of HMM and their application in speech recognition; Syntactic Pattern Recognition: introduction to Syntactic Pattern Recognition, grammar-based approach, parsing, graph-based approach; Unsupervised classification: basic concepts of clustering, proximity measures, categories of clustering algorithms, sequential clustering algorithms.
