Arbitrary function for RBF demo

 

Homework 1  due Sept 25.

Question of the week 1

 

 

 

Databases

Databases for future homework assignments and class projects: The following compressed zip file Databases.zip (9 MB) contains a few real-world databases. Each directory contains a different database, and each has a Readme.txt file associated with it. Some also have sample code to preprocess data, others have information given in the Readme.txt file on how to do the preprocessing and dataset preparation.

 

Papers for future interest

Read Freund & Schapire’s papers on AdaBoost

Decision Theoretic Generalization (Main AdaBoost paper)

Bagging and Boosting (a shorter version of the above)

Short introduction to boosting

A Tutorial by Shapire (presentation)

Homework, Labs & QOWs

Advanced Topics in

Pattern Recognition

ECE 455 / 555

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