E-Book Overview
The first edition, published in 1973, has become a classic reference in the field. Now with the second edition, readers will find information on key new topics such as neural networks and statistical pattern recognition, the theory of machine learning, and the theory of invariances. Also included are worked examples, comparisons between different methods, extensive graphics, expanded exercises and computer project topics.
E-Book Content
Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Machine Perception . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 An Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2.1 Related fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 The Sub-problems of Pattern Classification 1.3.1 Feature Extraction . . . . . . . . . . 1.3.2 Noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3.3 Overfitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3.4 Model Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3.5 Prior Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3.6 Missing Features . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3.7 Mereology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3.8 Segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3.9 Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3.10 Invariances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3.11 Evidence Pooling . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3.12 Costs and Risks . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3.13 Computational Complexity . . . . . 1.4 Learning and Adaptation . . . . . . . . . . 1.4.1 Supervised Learning . . . . . . . . . 1.4.2 Unsupervised Learning . . . . . . . . 1.4.3 Reinforcement Learning . . . . . . . 1.5 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Summary by Chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bibliographical and Historical Remarks . . . . . Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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