Unit 1
Introduction – Applications of pattern recognition -Probability distribution basics – Discrete distributions and Continuous distributions – Conditional probability distribution and Joint probability distribution – Statistical decision Making – Introduction – Bayes’ theorem – conditionally independent features – Naïve bayes classifier – Decision Boundaries – Unequal costs of error – Estimation of error rates.
Unit 2
Nonparametric decision making – Introduction – histograms – K nearest neighbor method – adaptive decision Boundaries – adaptive discriminant functions – minimum squared error discriminant functions – Artificial neural Networks – Logistic regression – Perceptron – Multilayer feed forward neural network – Gradient descent method – back propagation -Dimensionality Reduction Techniques – Principal component analysis – Fisher discriminant analysis.