631I & IT 638 Introduction to Pattern Recognition

  • Instructor: Prof. Sung-Hyuk Cha
    • Email: scha@pace.edu
    • Tel: (212) 346-1253
    • Office: 163 William St. 2nd floor rm 234
    • Office Hours: T 10am - noon and R 2:30pm - 5:30 pm


  • CRN: 23199 & 23200

  • Textbook: Pattern Classification (2nd. Edition) by Duda, Hart and Stork

  • Description:
    Pattern Recognition techniques are useful in many applications of computer science and information systems, such as information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and image processing. This course is an introduction to the foundation of pattern recognition algorithms.

    Topics to be studied: data structures for pattern representation, feature extraction and selection, parametric and non-parametric classification, supervised and non-supervised learning, clustering, decision trees, nearest neighbor, artificial neural networks, generic algorithm, and hidden Markov models. Applications of various classification techniques will be demonstrated by several on-going handwriting, biometrics, and other projects.

  • Lectures: will be on the http://blackboard.pace.edu
    Blackboard Login Procedures for Registered Students are available here

  • Schedule: (tentative)

    Week Reading assignments
    1 (1/27) Introduction
    2 (2/3) Nearest Neighbor & Matching
    3 (2/10) Neural Networks
    4 (2/17) Biometrics
    5 (2/24) Genetic Algorithms & Decision trees
    6 (3/3) Image Analysis
    7 (3/10) Clustering
    8 (3/17) Spring Break
    9 (3/24) Clustering Initial report
    10 (3/31) Numerical Taxonomy
    11 (4/7) Bayes Decision Theory & Text categorization
    12 (4/14) Statistics & ROC curves
    13 (4/21) Random Processes
    14 (4/28) Lab
    15 (5/5) Studyday? Final Presentation
    16 (5/12) Final Presentation

  • Evaluation:
    • Participation (25%):
    • Homeworks (25%):
    • Research Project (50%): Two reports & Final presentation.