13MCA544 Pattern Recognition syllabus for MCA


Unit-1 INTRODUCTION: 8 hours

Machine perception, pattern recognition systems, design cycle, learning andadaptation, Applications of pattern recognition.

Unit-2 PROBABILITY: 9 hours

Introduction, probability of events, random variables, Joint distributions anddensities, moments of random variables, estimation of parameters from samples, minimum riskestimators.

Unit-3 STATISTICAL DECISION MAKING 10 hours

Baye’s Theorem, multiple features,conditionally independent features, decision boundaries, unequal costs of error, estimation oferror rates, the leavingone- out technique. Characteristic curves, estimating the composition ofpopulations.

Unit-4 NONPARAMETRIC DECISION MAKING 9 hours

Introduction, histograms, Kernel and windowestimators, nearest neighbor classification techniques, adaptive decision boundaries, adaptivediscriminate Functions, minimum squared error discriminate functions, choosing a decisionmaking technique.

Unit-5 UNSUPERVISED LEARNING AND CLUSTERINGS 8 hours

Unsupervised Bayesian learning,data decryption and clustering, criterion functions and clustering, Hierarchical clustering, Onlineclustering, component analysis.

Unit-6 ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS 8 hours

Introduction, nets without hidden layers. nets withhidden layers, the back Propagation algorithms, Hopfield nets, an application.

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