Unit 1
Introduction: Machine perception – Pattern recognition systems – Design cycle – Learning and adaptation – Bayesian decision theory – minimum error rate classification – discriminant functions – decision surfaces – normal density based discriminant functions – Maximum likelihood estimation – Bayesian estimation.
Unit 2
Bayesian parameter estimation – Gaussian case – problems of dimensionality – Components analysis and discriminants – hidden Markov models, Non-parametric Techniques: density estimation – parzen windows – nearest neighbourhood estimation – linear discriminant functions and decision surfaces – two category linearly separable case – perception criterion function.