CPSC 689-602: Special Topics in
Pattern Classification

Fall 2007

Instructor: Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
Office: 520A HRBB
Phone: 979.845.2942
Email: rgutier@cs.tamu.edu

This webpage contains on-line and material for the course. Please send me a message if you have any suggestions for improvement or if you find errors in this posted material:

• Syllabus and tentative schedule: PDF
• On-line lecture handouts: This material is NOT intended to be comprehensive, but rather a SUMMARY of the key concepts covered in the lectures. Consult the syllabus for additional reading material from the textbook, which may be included in the tests.
• MATLAB tutorials:
  • CMU’s MATLAB webpage (HTML)
  • MATLAB-Simulink Programming Zone (HTML)
• Project presentation and reporting material:
  • Project presentation grading criteria (PDF)
  • Project report grading criteria (PDF)
  • Peer review form (PDF)
  • Rules for making good presentations, from CMU (HTML)
  • How to give a bad talk, by David Patterson (HTML)
  • How to prepare your presentations, from Kyoto University (PDF)
  • Dazzle'em with style, from OSU (HTML)
• Supplementary material for the lecture notes:
  • You and your research, by Richard Hamming (PDF)
  • Probability Exercises by John Truxal at SUNY SB (PDF)
  • ISOMAP paper by Tenenbaum et al. (PDF)
  • LLE paper by Roweis and Saul (PDF)
  • SVM tutorial paper by Burges (PDF)
  • ICA tutorial paper by Hyvarinen and Oja (PDF)
  • HMM tutorial by Rabiner (PDF)

Homework assignments

Homework #	Material
1	hw1.pdf, hw1.zip
2	hw2.pdf, hw2.zip
3	hw3.pdf, hw3.zip