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Instructor	Prof. Rama Chellappa
	A. V. Williams Building, Room 4411	Phone:	(301) 405-3656
	ECE Dept, Univ. of Maryland	Fax:	(301) 314-9115
	College Park, MD 20741	E-mail:	rama {AT} cfar.umd.edu
Teaching Assistant	Aswin C Sankaranarayanan	Email:	aswch {AT} cfar.umd.edu
	A. V. Williams Building, Room 4444	Phone:	x50290

(new)12/16/2005 Solutions to HW #6. [HW/Projects]

(new)12/16/2005 Solutions to HW #5. [HW/Projects]

(new)12/13/2005 [Update on the final exam] You are to submit final exam solutions by 2:00pm on 12/21/2005.

12/07/2005 Project 2 statement modified. You are allowed to use SVM optimization routines available on the web. Refer to all code used in the report.

12/03/2005 Homework #6 posted. [HW/Projects]

11/30/2005 Project 2 posted. [Project 2]

11/29/2005 Solutions to HW #4. [HW/Projects]

11/23/2005 Links to material on SVM, Optimal Control and Optimization. [Resources]

11/22/2005 Homework #5 posted. [HW/Projects]

10/26/2005 Project 1 posted. [Project 1]

09/26/2005 Homework #4 posted. [HW/Projects]

09/27/2005 Homework #3 posted. [HW/Projects]

10/05/2005 Mid-term scheduled on October 24. [INFO]

09/27/2005 Homework #2 posted. [HW/Projects]

09/19/2005 TA Office Hours on Fridays 9:00am-11:00am in 4444 AVW or Cfar Conference Room. [INFO]

09/14/2005 Homework #1 posted. [HW/Projects]

09/02/2005 Slides on Face Recognition Uploaded [Resources]

08/17/2005 Please send your name and email to aswch@cfar.umd.edu. Please have the word "633" or "828C" in the subject. I will create an email list for this class. Please broadcast this to others.

Class Timings:	MW 9:30 am - 10:45 am
Location:	CSI 1121
Office Hours:	MW 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Grading:	Homeworks 15%, Midterm 20%, Project 25%, Final 40% (comprehensive)
Midterm:	October 24, 2005 (Open book, Open Notes)
Pre-requisites:	ENEE 620 or Permission of the Instructor
Course Outline:	Click here to download
TA Office Hours:	Fridays 9:00 am - 11:00 am at 4444 AVW/CFAR Conf. Room

Homework #6 Solutions: Click here Click here [I want to thank the student who agreed to have his/her solutions uploaded. I am happy with most of the answers except the one for 6.11 for which I have provided my solutions]

Homework #5 Solutions: Click here

Homework #6: Simon Haykin Ch. 6, Problems 6.2, 6.3, 6.6, 6.7, 6.9, 6.11. [Due: 12/12/2005]

Project #2: Click here for details [Due: anytime before 12/21/2005]

Homework #4 Solutions: Click here

Homework #5: Duda and Hart (Second Edition) Ch 10 Prb: 2, 8, 16, 18, 23 and 26. Due: 11/30/2005]

Project #1: Click here for details [Due: 11/21/2005]

Homework #4: Duda and Hart (Second Edition) Ch 5 Prb: 2, 7, 11, 12, 14, 27 [Due: 11/02/2005]

Homework #3: Duda and Hart (Second Edition) Ch 4 Prb: 3, 6, 8, 9, 13 [Due: 10/17/2005]

Homework #2: Duda and Hart (Second Edition) Ch 2 Prb: 37, 43. Ch 3 Prb: 4, 13, 17, 26 [Due: 10/05/2005]

Homework #1: Duda and Hart (Second Edition) Ch 2 Prb: 5, 7, 12, 26, 31, 45 [Due: 09/26/2005]

SVM Burges' Tutorial on SVM, Optimal Control Prof. Krishnaprasad's Notes on Optimal Control and Convex Optimization Prof. Wainwright's course on CO at Berkeley Prof. Boyd's book on CO

Slides on Face Recognition: [Click Here to Download][Link to Survey Paper on Face Recognition]

Textbook FAQ created by D. Stork

Elements of Statistical Learning by T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani, and J. Friedman

Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks by B. Ripley

Pattern Recognition Information: a good website collecting a lot of useful information

ENEE621 course note by Prof. Papamarcou: an excellent reference to estimation and detection theory and a good self-start point.

Combining Pattern Classifiers: Methods and Algorithms by L. I. Kuncheva, Wiley 2004

Kernel Methods for Pattern Analysis by John Shawe-Taylor & Nello Cristianini, Cambridge University Press, 2004