Description

This course is focused on providing students with an introductory overview of theoretical and practical aspects of the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining such as: data representation, pattern recognition, data classification, cluster analysis, quantification of classification performance, and data visualization. In addition, the course covers applications of interest such as biomedical data analysis, digital signal processing, image segmentation and video analysis.

Recommended textbooks 

   [1] Ethem Alpaydın. Introduction to Machine Learning. (2nd Edition). MIT Press. Available here.

   [2] Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart, and David G. Stork. 2000. Pattern Classification (2nd Edition). Wiley-Interscience. First chapter here.

   [3] J. Lee, M. Verleysen. Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction. Springer. here

   [4] SDAS Research Group. Introduction to machine learning from linear algebra point of view. (Handout pdf)

   [5] Deisenroth, Marc Peter and Faisal, A Aldo and Ong, Cheng Soon. Mathematics for machine learning.  2020 Cambridge University Press. here

   [6] KB Petersen, MS Pedersen. The matrix cookbook. Technical Manual, 2012. Technical University of Denmark. here