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AL-603 (C) RGPV B.Tech

Pattern Recognition (PR)

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Syllabus, notes and important questions for AL-603 (C)

Syllabus units

Topics as the official RGPV syllabus lists them.

Unit 1 Introduction and Mathematical Preliminaries 9 topics
  • Principles of pattern recognition
  • Uses of pattern recognition
  • Mathematics for pattern recognition
  • Classification and Bayesian rules
  • Clustering vs classification
  • Basics of linear algebra and vector spaces
  • Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
  • Rank of matrix
  • Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)
Unit 1 notes
Unit 2 Pattern Recognition Basics 15 topics
  • Bayesian decision theory
  • Classifiers
  • Discriminant functions
  • Decision surfaces
  • Parameter estimation methods
  • Hidden Markov models
  • Dimension reduction methods
  • Fisher discriminant analysis
  • Principal component analysis (PCA)
  • Non‑parametric techniques for density estimation
  • Non‑metric methods for pattern classification
  • Unsupervised learning
  • Clustering algorithms: K‑means
  • Clustering algorithms: Hierarchical clustering
  • Other clustering methods
Unit 2 notes
Unit 3 Feature Selection and Extraction 8 topics
  • Problem statement and uses of feature selection
  • Branch‑and‑bound algorithm for feature selection
  • Sequential forward selection
  • Sequential backward selection
  • Cauchy‑Schwarz inequality in feature selection
  • Probabilistic separability based feature selection criteria
  • Inter‑class distance based feature selection criteria
  • Principles of feature extraction
Unit 3 notes
Unit 4 Visual Recognition 11 topics
  • Human visual recognition system
  • Low‑level modelling (e.g., feature extraction)
  • Mid‑level abstraction (e.g., segmentation)
  • High‑level reasoning (e.g., scene understanding)
  • Detection and segmentation methods
  • Context and scene analysis
  • Importance and saliency detection
  • Large‑scale search and recognition
  • Egocentric vision systems
  • Human‑in‑the‑loop interactive systems
  • 3‑D scene understanding
Unit 4 notes
Unit 5 Recent Advancements in Pattern Recognition 10 topics
  • Comparison of classifier performance
  • Basics of statistics for pattern recognition
  • Covariance and its properties
  • Data condensation techniques
  • Feature clustering
  • Data visualization
  • Probability density estimation
  • Visualization and aggregation methods
  • Fuzzy C‑Means (FCM) and soft‑computing techniques
  • Examples of real‑life datasets
Unit 5 notes
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