Last year's lectures
| Date | Lecture Topics | Suggested Readings |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Jan 2015 | Introduction: Representing Sounds and Images [slides]   |
Tom, Dick and Mary discover the DFT [pdf] Vetterli's tutorial on Wavelets [pdf] Time Frequency Representations [pdf] |
| 22 Jan 2015 | Introduction to Linear Algebra [slides]   |
Matrix cookbook |
| 27 Jan 2015 | Introduction to Linear Algebra II [slides]   |
Matrix identities (compiled by Sam Roweis) |
| 29 Jan 2015 | Introduction to Linear Algebra III [slides] | |
| 3 Feb 2015 | Signal Representations Component Analysis I [slides] |
Tutorial paper on PCA [pdf] Another tutorial[pdf] |
| 5 Feb | Project Ideas    | Project Information |
| 10 Feb 2015 | Eigen representations: Eigenfaces [slides]   |
Short tutorial [link] Paper describing Eigenfaces [pdf] [link] |
| 12 Feb 2015 | Boosting, Viola Jones, etc... [slides]       |
Viola Jones classic paper [pdf][link] |
| 16 Feb 2015 | Face Detection [slides] | |
| 19 and 24 Feb 2015 | Face Detection and PCA [slides]    |
Andrew Moore's tutorial on K-means clustering [link] |
| 5 and 10 March 2015 | ICA [slides]    |
Tutorial by Hyvarinen [pdf] Original paper [pdf] |
12 and 17 March 2015 | NMF [slides]    |
Convolutive NMF for speech seperation [pdf] Lee and Seung paper on NMF [pdf] |
24 and 26 March 2015 | Sparse NMF [slides]    |
Sparse NMF with Euclidean metric [pdf] On proper implementation of sparse NMF [pdf] |
31 March 2015 | Clustering [slides]    |
7 April 2015 | EM [slides]    |
9 April 2015 | Regression [slides]    |