Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Objectives The student is expected to acquire knowledge about supervised and unsupervised pattern recognition methodology and to develop critical judgement concerning the strengths and weaknesses of the various approaches covered in the context of application requirements.
Synopsis Supervised pattern recognition including binary feature vector analysis, Bayesian minimal risk formulations, near neighbour rules, sequential pattern recognition, linguistic and fuzzy logic systems, neural networks, evidential reasoning systems; unsupervised pattern recognition including minimal spanning trees, shared near neighbour rules and self organising neural networks.
Assessment Examinations: 50% + Practical work: 40% + Seminar: 10%