Pattern Recognition and Analysis

Parzen window illustration.

Six Gaussians (red) and their sum (blue). The Parzen window density estimate f(x) is obtained by dividing this sum by 6, the number of Gaussians. The variance of the Gaussians was set to 0.5. Note that where the points are denser the density estimate will have higher values.

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MAS.622J / 1.126J

As Taught In

Fall 2006

Level

Graduate

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Course Description

This class deals with the fundamentals of characterizing and recognizing patterns and features of interest in numerical data. We discuss the basic tools and theory for signal understanding problems with applications to user modeling, affect recognition, speech recognition and understanding, computer vision, physiological analysis, and more. We also cover decision theory, statistical classification, maximum likelihood and Bayesian estimation, nonparametric methods, unsupervised learning and clustering. Additional topics on machine and human learning from active research are also talked about in the class.

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Media Lab Faculty and Staff, Bo Morgan, Rosalind Picard, and Andrea Thomaz. MAS.622J Pattern Recognition and Analysis. Fall 2006. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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