Seminar

CSE 717 - (Spring 2008)

Instructor:	Dr. Venu Govindaraju
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Time:	Fridays 3.00pm - 4:20pm
Place:	CEDAR Conference Room

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Course Schedule (subject to change):

Wk	Date	Topic	Materials
1	Jan 18	Organizational Meeting
2	Jan 25	Introduction to Document Image Analysis Math foundations	Slides
3	Feb 1	Markov Models for Pattern Recognition Introduction	Slides
4	Feb 8	Markov Models for Pattern Recognition Parameter Estimation	Slides
5	Feb 15	Vector Quantization and Mixture Density Model	Slides
6	Feb 22	Forward-Backward Algorithm & Viterbi Algorithm	Slides
7	Feb 29	Baum-Welch Algorithm Student Presentation - "Satistical Analysis of Dirty Picture, Besag J., 1986"	Slides
8	Mar 7	Student Presentation
9	Mar 14	Spring Break
10	Mar 21	N-Gram Models Student Presentation
11,12 & 13	Mar 28, Apr 4 & 11	HMMs in Practice – Topology, Pruning, Parameter Tying Student Presentation First project presentation in week 13
14 & 15	Apr 18 & Apr 25	HMM based systems - handwriting recognition, speech recognition Project presentation

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