Other topics that may be covered in class

Last year's lectures

Tentative  Schedule

Date Lecture Topics Suggested Readings Additional material
28 Aug 2014 Introduction: Representing Sounds and Images

[slides]   [handout]

Tom, Dick and Mary discover the DFT [pdf]

Vetterli's tutorial on Wavelets [pdf]

Time Frequency Representations [pdf]
2 Sep 2014 Linear Algebra refresher I

[slides]  [handout]
4 Sep 2014 Linear Algebra refresher II

[slides]  [handout]

 [Gilbert Strang's notes on Eigen analysis]
[Sam Roweis' notes on matrix identities]		 [A pretty good video lecture on SVD]
9 Sep 2014 Project Ideas[slides]  [handout]
Representing data: Sounds and images [slides]  [handout]
11 Sep 2014 Guest lecture, Griffin Romigh
[slides]
16 Sep 2014 Eigen analysis [slides]  [handout]
18 Sep 2014 Component Analysis: Guest lecture by Fernando de la Torre[slides]  [handout]
23 and 25 Sep 2014 Binary classification, voting, an application to object detection[slides]  [handout]
30 Sep 2014 Independent Component Analysis[slides]
2 Oct 2014 Structure from motion : Guest Lecture by Yaser Sheikh[slides]  [handout]
7 Oct 2014 Non-negative Matrix Factorization
[slides]
9 Oct 2014 Clustering  [slides]  [handout]
14 Oct 2014 Sparse over complete representations and dictionary-based decompositions  [slides]
16 Oct 2014 Guest lecture by Shantanu Rane : Binary embeddings[slides]
21 Oct 2014- Compressive Sensing[slides]
23 Oct 2014- Expectation Maximization[slides]
28 Oct 2014 Regression, ML, MAP and MMSE estimation[slides]
30 Oct 2014 Linear Gaussian Models[slides]
4 Nov 2014 Factor Analysis[slides]
6 Nov 2014 Neural Networks[slides]
11 Nov 2014 Hidden Markov Models  [slides]
13 Nov 2014 Linear Gaussian Models and FA  [slides]
18 Nov 2014 Computing with privacy (Manas Pathak)  [slides]
20 Nov 2014 Factor Graphs, Gary Overett [slides]
25 Nov 2014 Predicting and Estimating time series: Kalman filtering [slides]
27 Nov 2014 Thanksgiving break
2 Dec 2014 TBD
4 Dec 2014 Final project presentations