Other topics that may be covered in class

Last year's lectures

Tentative  Schedule

Date Lecture Topics Suggested Readings Additional material
28 Aug 2012 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]
30 Aug 2012 Introduction to Linear Algebra

[slides]   [handout]
4 Sep 2012 Introduction to Linear Algebra II

[slides]   [handout]

 Matrix identities (compiled by Sam Roweis)

[link]
6 Sep 2012 DSP refresher: Prof. Tom Sullivan   Additional DSP notes [link]
11 Sep 2012 Guest Lecture: Prof. Fernando De la Torre

Component Analysis I

[slides] 		Tutorial paper on PCA

[pdf]

 Another tutorial

[pdf]

 Original paper on ICA

[pdf]
13 Sep 2012 Project Ideas

[slides]   [handout]   [Chris' slides]
18 Sep 2012 Eigen representations: Eigenfaces

[slides]  [handouts]

Short tutorial

[link]

 Paper describing Eigenfaces

[pdf]

Tutorial with Matlab code

[link]
20 Sep 2012 Boosting, Viola Jones, etc...

[slides]    [handouts]    [Last year's slides]

 Viola Jones classic paper [pdf] Excellent list of Face recognition papers

[link]
25 Sep 2012 Guest Lecture: Prof. Fernando De la Torre

Component Analysis II
27 Sep 2012 Clustering

[slides]   [handout]   [Last year's slides]

Andrew Moore's tutorial on K-means clustering

[link]
2 Oct 2012 Guest Lecture: Sourish Chaudhuri

Expectation Maximization and GMMs

[slides]   [handout]

 Self contained tutorial

[link]

 Jeff Bilmes tutorial

[link]

Variants of EM

[link]
4 Oct 2012 Hidden Markov Models

[slides]   [handout]

9 Oct 2012 Guest Lecture: Prof. Roger Dannenberg

Music Understanding

11 Oct 2012 Latent variable models and Signal separation

[slides]   [handout]

16 Oct 2012 Class cancelled
18 Oct 2012 Guest Lecture (ECE Seminar):

Prof. Petros T. Boufounos

Compressive Sensing

[slides]
23 Oct 2012 Regression

[slides]    [handout]

26 Oct 2012 MMSE and MAP Estimation
30 Oct 2012 Predicting and Estimating from time series

[slides]   [handout]
1 Nov 2012 Predicting and Estimating from time series II

[slides]    [handout]
8 Nov 2012 Independent Component Analysis

[slides]   [handout]

 Tutorial by Hyvarinen

[pdf]

 		Original paper

[pdf]
13 Nov 2012

Guest Lecture: Leibny Paola García Perera

Factor Analysis

[slides]   [handout]