UNIT 1:
Introduction – Definitions, data sets for Pattern, Application Areas and Examples of pattern recognition, Design principles of pattern recognition system, Classification and clustering, supervised Learning, unsupervised learning and adaptation, Pattern recognition approaches, Decision Boundaries, Decision region , Metric spaces, distances.

UNIT 2:
Classification: introduction, application of classification, types of classification, decision tree, naïve bayes, logistic regression , support vector machine, random forest, K Nearest Neighbour Classifier and variants, Efficient algorithms for nearest neighbour classification, Different Approaches to Prototype Selection, Combination of Classifiers, Training set, test set, standardization and normalization.

UNIT 3:
Different Paradigms of Pattern Recognition, Representations of Patterns and Classes, Unsupervised Learning & Clustering: Criterion functions for clustering, Clustering Techniques: Iterative square -error partitional clustering – K means, hierarchical clustering, Cluster validation.

UNIT 4:
introduction of feature extraction and feature selection, types of feature extraction , Problem statement and Uses, Algorithms - Branch and bound algorithm, sequential forward / backward selection algorithms, (l,r) algorithm.

UNIT 5:
Recent advances in Pattern Recognition, Structural PR, SVMs, FCM, Soft computing and Neuro-fuzzy techniques, and real-life examples, Histograms rules, Density Estimation, Nearest Neighbor Rule, Fuzzy classification.