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Course Detail

Course Name Statistical Pattern Recognition
Course Code 26MAT345
Program 5 Year Integrated M.Sc in Data Science
Credits 3
Campus Coimbatore

Syllabus

Unit 1

Introduction to Pattern Recognition, Introduction Pattern recognition systems the design cycle learning and adaptation Applications of Pattern recognition statistical decision theory Examples on pattern recognition, and image processing and analysis.

Unit 2

Parametric methods of Classification, Introduction Bayes theorem and Bayesian decision making classifications based on single and multiple features conditionally independent features discrete and continuous features – Gaussian case and general theory – discriminant functions, decision boundaries and decision regions problems of dimensionality components analysis and discriminants Minimum error rate classification Receiver Operating characteristic curves Estimation of the composition of populations based on machine learning classification.

Unit 3

Nonparametric methods Classification, Introduction – histograms density estimation mixture densities – kernel and window estimators nearest neighbor classification techniques rules and distance metrics – single and k-nearest neighbor techniques adaptive decision boundaries and discriminant functions minimum squared error discriminant functions.

Unit 4

Nonmetric methods of classification, Introduction to Nonmetric methods decision trees and decision regions CART methods algorithm-independent machine learning lack of inherent superiority of any classifier bias and variance for regression and classification resampling or estimating statistics jackknife and bootstrap resampling methods

Unit 5

Methods of Clustering, Introduction to unsupervised learning and clustering data description and clustering criterion functions for clustering hierarchical clustering single linkage algorithm, complete linkage algorithm, average linkage algorithm and Wards algorithm partitional clustering Forgys algorithm – and k-means algorithm

Text Books / References

Text Books

  1. Earl Gose, Richard Johnsonbaugh and Steve Jost, Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, 2002, Prentice Hall of India.

References

  1. Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart and David G. Stork, Pattern Classification, Second Edition, 2003, John Wily & Sons.

Objectives and Outcomes

Course Outcomes
CO1 To understand Bayesian decision theory and its use
CO2 To gain knowledge about Bayesian estimation methods
CO3 To apply nonparametric techniques and linear discriminant functions
CO4 To gain knowledge about nonmetric methods and algorithm independent machine learning
CO5 To apply unsupervised learning and clustering

CO-PO Mapping

  PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9 PO10 PO11 PO12
CO1 3 2 2 3 2           2 2
CO2   3 3 3 2           2 2
CO3   3 3 3 2           2 2
CO4   3 3 3 2           2 2
CO5   3 3 3 2           2 2

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