Introduction 1

Preparation

Read Chapter 1 in the text.

Notes

Course Organization

Fundamentals Pattern Recognition

What is and is not Pattern Recognition
Pattern Recognition methods
- Statistical
- Structural (Syntactic)
- Fuzzy logic
- Neural Network
Spaces
- Pattern space
- Measurement space
- Decision space
Performance considerations
- Error
- Risk

Homework

Think about some pattern recognition problems that would be of interest to you as a research project and write them down. Think of 3 pattern recognition problems other than the obvious ones like OCR that you perform everyday. For each, describe the pattern, measurement and decision spaces.