Machine Learning is the study of methods for programming computers to learn. Computers are applied to a wide range of tasks, and for most of these it is relatively easy for programmers to design and implement the necessary software. However, there are many tasks for which this is difficult or impossible. These can be divided into four general categories. First, there are problems for which there exist no human experts. For example, in modern automated manufacturing facilities, there is a need to predict machine failures before they occur by analyzing sensor readings. Because the machines are new, there are no human experts who can be interviewed by a programmer to provide the knowledge necessary to build a computer system. A machine learning system can study recorded data and subsequent machine failures and learn prediction rules. Second, there are problems where human experts exist, but where they are unable to explain their expertise. This is the case in many perceptual tasks, such as speech recognition, hand-writing recognition, and natural language understanding. Virtually all humans exhibit expert-level abilities on these tasks, but none of them can describe the detailed steps that they follow as they perform them. Fortunately, humans can provide machines with examples of the inputs and correct outputs for these tasks, so machine learning algorithms can learn to map the inputs to the outputs. Third, there are problems where phenomena are changing rapidly. In finance, for example, people would like to predict the future behavior of the stock market, of consumer purchases, or of exchange rates. These behaviors change frequently, so that even if a programmer could construct a good predictive computer program, it would need to be rewritten frequently. A learning program can relieve the programmer of this burden by constantly modifying and tuning a set of learned prediction rules. Fourth, there are applications that need to be customized for each computer user separately. Consider, for example, a program to filter unwanted electronic mail messages. Different users will need different filters. It is unreasonable to expect each user to program his or her own rules, and it is infeasible to provide every user with a software engineer to keep the rules up-to-date. A machine learning system can learn which mail messages the user rejects and maintain the filtering rules automatically. Machine learning addresses many of the same research questions as the fields of statistics, data mining, and psychology, but with differences of emphasis. Statistics focuses on understanding the phenomena that have generated the data, often with the goal of testing different hypotheses about those phenomena. Data mining seeks to find patterns in the data that are understandable by people. Psychological studies of human learning aspire to understand the mechanisms underlying the various learning behaviors exhibited by people (concept learning, skill acquisition, strategy change, etc.).

Machine learning

Probability Distributions.- Linear Models for Regression.- Linear Models for Classification.- Neural Networks.- Kernel Methods.- Sparse Kernel Machines.- Graphical Models.- Mixture Models and EM.- Approximate Inference.- Sampling Methods.- Continuous Latent Variables.- Sequential Data.- Combining Models.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

Data Mining Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques

http://www.csun.edu/~andrzej/COMP529-S05/papers/Mesh%20Networks%20Survey.pdf

Wireless mesh networks: a survey

“Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks”の学習報告

We present a novel signal processing methodology to determine the direction and the strength of coupling between coupled nonlinear systems. The methodology is based on multivariate local linear prediction in the reconstructed state spaces of the observed variables from each multivariable nonlinear system. Application of the method is illustrated with systems of coupled Rossler and Lorenz oscillators in various coupling configurations. The obtained results are compared with ones produced by the use of the directed transfer function, a model-based method in the time domain. Through a surrogate analysis, it is shown that the proposed method is more reliable than the directed transfer function in identifying the direction and strength of the involved interactions.

Measuring the direction and the strength of coupling in nonlinear Systems-a modeling approach in the State space

Block modified covariance algorithms are proposed for autoregressive parametric spectral estimation. First, the authors develop the block modified covariance algorithm (BMCA) which can be implemented either in the time or in the frequency domain-with the latter being more efficient in high-order cases. A block algorithm is also developed for the energy weighted combined forward and backward prediction. This algorithm is called energy weighted BMCA (EWBMCA) and its performance is analogous to that of the weighted covariance method proposed by Nikias and Scott (1983). Time-varying convergence factors, designed to minimize the error energy from one iteration to the next, are given for both algorithms. In addition, three updating schemes are presented, namely block-by-block, sample-by-sample, and sample-by-sample with time-scale separation. The performance of the proposed algorithms is examined with stationary and nonstationary narrowband and broadband processes, and also with sinusoids in noise. Lastly, the authors discuss the computational complexity of the proposed algorithms and give performance comparisons to existing modified covariance algorithms. >

Block time and frequency domain modified covariance algorithms for spectral analysis

iPhone/iPad-Based Interactive Laboratory for Signal Processing in Mobile Devices

Java Dsp Interface With Matlab And Its Use In Engineering Education

Two class separability criteria based on the divergence measure are proposed to improve speech recognition performance. The average and weighted average divergence measures are used as criteria for finding a transformation matrix which maps the original features into a more discriminative subspace. Results are presented for a highly confusable task.

Andreas Spanias

Papers

Measuring the direction and the strength of coupling in nonlinear Systems-a modeling approach in the State space

Block time and frequency domain modified covariance algorithms for spectral analysis

iPhone/iPad-Based Interactive Laboratory for Signal Processing in Mobile Devices

Java Dsp Interface With Matlab And Its Use In Engineering Education

Improved speech recognition using a subspace projection approach