Pattern Recognition

Sergios Theodoridis holds a physics degree from Athens University and an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. degree in electronics and electrical engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK He is currently with the Department of Informatics, University of Athens. His research interests lie in the areas of adaptive signal processing, communications, and pattern recognition. Theodoridis has published more than 40 papers in journals and more than 50 refereed conference papers, and he is the coeditor of Adaptive System Identification and Signal Processing Algorithms. Theodoridis was General Chairman for EUSIPCO 98 and Organizing Chairman of PARPLE 1995, plus he has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. He has held various consultancy posts both in Industry and the Greek Government, and he has participated in a number of European Union funded projects. Konstantinos Koustroumbas holds a computer engineering degree from the University of Patras, an M.Sc. degree from the University of London, UK, and a Ph.D. from Athens University. His research interests lie in the area of neural networks and pattern recognition. Koustroumbas is currently with the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization.

Intro; Classifiers Based on Bayes Decision; Theory; Support Vector machines (linear case); Support Vector Machines; (nonlinear case); Decision trees; Linear Classifiers;; Non Linear Classifiers; Deformable Template Matching; Feature Selection;; Feature Generation I: Linear Transforms; Feature Generation II. Template; Matching; Context Dependent Classification; System Evaluation Clustering: Basic; Concepts; Clustering Algorithms I: Sequential Algorithms; Clustering; Algorithms II: Hierarchical Algorithms; Clustering Algorithms III: Schemes Based; on Function Optimization; Clustering Algorithms IV. Cluster Validity; Appendices.