Research Statement

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Thesis

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OMEGA: On-line MEmory-based GenerAl purpose system detector
FRONTPAGES [PDF] CONTENTS [PDF] CHAPTER 1 Introduction [PDF] 1.1 What is system classification? 1.2 The applications of system classification 1.3 The assumptions of OMEGA 1.4 Related fields 1.5 The system classification approaches 1.6 Thesis outline 1.7* A brief introduction to HMM CHAPTER 2 Memory-based System Detection [PDF] 2.1 Likelihood analysis 2.2 Hypothesis testing 2.3 Efficiency issues 2.4 Pre-processing 2.5 Memory-based learning 2.6 Summary CHAPTER 3 Tennis Style Detection [PDF] 3.1 Experimental design 3.2 OMEGA result analysis 3.3 Comparison with other methods 3.4 Summary CHAPTER 4 Logistic Regression as a Classifier [PDF] 4.1 Classification methods 4.2 Global logistic regression 4.3 Locally weighted logistic regression 4.4 Comparison experiment 4.5 Summary CHAPTER 5 Efficient Memory Information Retrieval [PDF] 5.1 Efficient information retrieval 5.2 Kd-tree construction and information retrieval 5.3 Cached kd-tree for memory-based learning 5.4 Experiments and results 5.5. Summary CHAPTER 6 Kd-tree for Various Regressions [PDF] 6.1 Locally weighted linear regression 6.2 Efficient locally weighted linear regression 6.3 Technical details 6.4 Empirical evaluation 6.5 Kd-tree for logistic regression 6.6 Empirical evaluation 6.7 Summary CHAPTER 7 Feature Selection [PDF] 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Cross-validation vs. Overfitting 7.3 Feature selection algorithms 7.4 Experiments 7.5 Summary CHAPTER 8 Driving Simulation [PDF] 8.1 Experiment data 8.2 Experiment results 8.3 Comparison with other methods 8.4 Summary CHAPTER 9 Real World Driving [PDF] 9.1 Data collection 9.2 OMEGA result 9.3 Comparison with other methods 9.4 Summary CHAPTER 10 Conclusion [PDF] 10.1 Discussion 10.2 Contributions 10.2 Future research 10.3 Applications APPENDIX A Chinese Handwriting Recognition [PDF] REFERENCES [PDF]

Kan Deng
Last modified: Tuesday April 13, 1999
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