Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Speech recognition
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Speaker recognition
Music genre recognition
Song identification: Shazam for iPhone
Speech recognition for expression evaluation
Emotion recognition using speech
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Telemonitoring Parkinsons Disease using Speech
Automatic summary extraction from text documents\
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Text classification
Categories
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Sentiments
Review analysis
Re ie anal sis
SMS classification
Classifying Positive and Negative Affective Responses
Cl if i P iti d N ti Aff ti R
through Facial Expressions
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Handwritten digit recognition
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Handwritten character recognition
License plate detection on images
Hand gesture recognition: American Sign Language
Object class recognition in natural scenes
Make and model recognition of a car
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Biometrics
Leaf classification: diseases/non‐diseased
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Gender classification using face images
Age estimation using face images
How beautiful a face is?
Content based image retrieval
Wolpert and Macready: “Any two algorithms are
equivalent when their performance is averaged across
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all possible problems”.
Inference: One classifier will not work for the possible
problems. The performance depends on the prior, data
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distribution, training data available and cost or reward
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In the absence of assumptions there is no privileged or
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“best” feature representation, and that even the notion
of similarity between patterns depends implicitly on
assumptions which may or may not be correct.
Data preprocessing
Feature extraction/selection
Classification –
Classification Linear vs Non‐Linear
Non Linear
Performance evaluation with cross validation
Webpage for the courses and should be regularly
updated
Bonus for regular updates: 2% of the project
Penalty for not making it: ‐2% of the course
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Programming language: No constraint
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Project should be team effort
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Individual marks for the project (No free ride with the
group members)
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Any kind of cheating including copying from internet
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is not permissible. If caught, ZERO marks in the
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project for the entire team
Proposal Submission: February 11, 2011 (Before class)
Do the feasibility study before proposal submission.
Changing the project topics is not allowed later.