Computer Science & Engineering Department


CS 479/679 Pattern Recognition (Spring 2024)

  • Meets: Monday/Wednesday 1:00pm - 2:15pm (WPEB 200)

  • Instructor: Dr. George Bebis

  • Teaching Assistant: Aminul Huq

  • Required Text:
  • Optional Texts:
  • PR Journals
  • PR Conferences
  • Useful Mathematics and Statistics resources

  • Important Resources
  • Useful software:
  • Source Code for Reading/Writing Images


  • Course Description

    This course will introduce the fundamentals of pattern recognition. First, we will focus on generative methods such as those based on Bayes decision theory and related techniques of parameter estimation and density estimation. Next, we will focus on discriminative methods such support vector machines. Methods of pattern recognition are useful in many applications such as information retrieval, data mining, document image analysis and recognition, computational linguistics, forensics, biometrics and bioinformatics. In this course, we will emphasize computer vision applications.


    Course Outline (tentative)

  • Introduction
  • Bayesian Decision Theory
  • Bayesian Networks
  • Maximum Likelihood Estimation
  • Bayesian Estimation
  • Dimensionality Reduction (Feature Extraction, Feature Selection)
  • Linear Discriminant Functions
  • Support Vector Machines (SVMs)
  • Expectation-Maximization (EM) Algorithm (if time permits)


    Course Prerequisites

    CS 202 with a "C" or better; MATH/STAT 352 or MATH/STAT 461. Credit hours: 3.0

    Exams and Assignments

    Grading will be based on 7 quizzes (lowest quiz grade will be dropped), two exams, and 4 programming assignments (to be completed on an individual basis). Graduate students will be required to present a paper to the rest of the class.

    Course Policies

    Lecture slides, assignments, and other useful information will be posted on this web page. Discussion of the of your work is allowed and encouraged. However, each student should do his/her own work. Assignments which are too similar will receive a zero and you might also receive an "F" in the class. No late work will be accepted unless there is an extreme emergency. If you are unable to hand in an assignment by the deadline, you must discuss it with me before the deadline. Quizzes and exams will be closed books, closed notes. If you are unable to take a quiz or exam you must inform me in advance. No incomplete grades (INC) will be given in this course and a missed exam may be made up only if it was missed due to an extreme emergency. Regular attendance is highly recommended. If you miss a class, you are responsible for all material covered or assigned in class. You should carefully read the section on Academic Dishonesty found in the UNR Student Handbook. Your continued enrollment in this course implies that you have read it, and that you subscribe to the principles stated therein.


    Handouts


    Sample Exams


    Lectures




    Programming Assignments


    Paper Presentation (Graduate Students Only)


    Presentation Guidelines




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