Pattern Recognition ECE 544, Fall 2007 Instructor: Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, jhasegaw at uiuc.edu Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30-12:50, 106B3 Engineering Hall Office Hours This Week: Wednesday, 3:00-4:00, 2011 Beckman Relevant Seminar: PAML seminars, 3-4PM Wednesdays, 4269 Beckman

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Course Handouts

• Homework 7 Solutions
• Homework 7
• Homework 6
• Homework 5 Solutions
• Homework 5
• Homework 4 Solutions
• Homework 4
• Exam 1 Solutions
• Exam 1
• Homework 3 Solutions
• Homework 3
• Homework 2 Solutions
• Homework 2 (Chapter 3; Due 9/27/07)
• Homework 1 Solutions
• Homework 1 (Chapter 2; Due 9/6/07)
• Syllabus
• Late homework policy: article reviews and computer assignments may be turned in any time before the end of the semester (if you intend to submit after the December exam, notify instructor). Written problems (from the textbook) must be submitted on the due date specified for each problem set unless you first get instructor's permission for an extension.

Lecture Notes

• Dec. 6: Review
• Dec. 3: Auto-Associative Nets
• Nov. 29: Mixture Densities, Agglomerative Clustering
• Nov. 27: Mixture Densities, K-Means
• Nov. 15: Classifier Combination
• Nov. 13: Classifier Selection
• Nov. 8: Strings and Grammars
• Nov. 6: Decision Trees
• Nov. 1: Markov Chain Monte Carlo
• Oct. 30: Simulated Annealing, Boltzmann Networks
• Oct. 30: Stochastic Search
• Oct. 25: Line Search, Conjugate Gradients
• Oct. 23: Back-Propagation
• Oct. 18: Multi-Layer Neural Nets
• Oct. 15: SVMs
• Oct. 11: Exam 1 Review
• Oct. 9: Perceptrons
• Sept. 27: Linear Discriminants
• Sept. 25: Metrics, Voronoi Regions
• Sept. 20: Parzen Windows, K Nearest Neighbors
• Sept. 18: LDA
• Sept. 13: Sufficient Statistics
• Sept. 11: ML, MAP, and Bayesian Estimation
• Sept. 6: Bayesian Nets and Markov Fields
• Sept. 4: Discriminants and Error Integrals There are at least two major errors in this document: (1) erf(x) is related to PHI(sqrt(2)x), not PHI(x), and (2) the Bhattacharya for Gaussian likelihoods is exp(-z) where z is the quantity given in the notes.
• Aug. 30: Multivariate Gaussians
• Aug. 28: Univariate Bayes Risk
• Aug. 23: Minimum Bayes Risk

Handouts from ECE598NA, Fall 2006

• Final Exam
• Final Project Description
• Solutions to Homework 5
• Homework 5
• Solutions to Homework 4
• Homework 4
• Solutions to Homework 3
• Homework 3
• Exam 1
• Solutions to Homework 2
• Homework 2
• Solutions to Homework 1
• Homework 1
• Updated syllabus