Unofficial TA: Shaohua (Kevin) Zhou ( shaohua@cfar.umd.edu )
Room 4444, A. V. Williams Bldg
Office Hours: Friday 3:00pm-5:00pm

• 12/08/2003(new!) Class on 12/09/2003 has been cancelled. Prof. Chellappa will go over the final exam on this Thursday 12/11/2003.
• 12/03/2003 two papers on geometric hashing: lamdan88iccv lamdan90tra
• 11/26/2003  two papers on pattern recognition applications: face recognition automation target recognition
• 11/20/2003 Slides on tree methods cart.ppt
• 11/04/2003 A website of matrix calculus.
• 10/23/2003 A tutorial paper on SVM. svm_pr_tutorial.pdf
• 10/21/2003 The course project has been announced.
• 09/30/2003 There is a temporary room change on 10/9/2003. The class will move to AVW3258. 
• 09/26/2003 Reference on Rayleigh Quotient .
• 09/10/2003 Thank Prof. Papamarcou for sharing his ENEE621 course note, which is an excellent reference to estimation and detection theory and a good self-start point.
• 09/10/2003 Bhattacharyya distance does not satisfy triangle inequality. Check out Kailath's original paper and its comments. kailath67ct.pdf toussaint72ct.pdf
• 08/25/2003 Please send your name and email to shaohua@cfar.umd.edu. I will create an email list for this class. Please broadcast this to others.

1. ENEE698A Graduate Seminar on Statistical Learning
2. Textbook FAQ created by D. Stork
3. Elements of Statistical Learning by T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani, and J. Friedman
4. Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks by B. Ripley
5. Pattern Recognition Information: a good website collecting a lot of useful information
6. ENEE621 course note by Prof. Papamarcou: an excellent reference to estimation and detection theory and a good self-start point.