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Courses in summer term 2009 / Machine Learning Project
abstract

Although many tedious tasks can be automated by modelling the behavior of a (computer) system manually, many problems require that a system can adapt its reponses based on feedback on former actions, i.e., learn how to act in a better way in the future. Other tasks are just too large-scale for humans to overview, so help from computers is needed.

Machine Learning (also known as Data Mining, Pattern Recognition, Data Analysis, and Classification) is a research area at the intersection of computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematics and statistics, that addresses these problems. It covers general methods and techniques that then can be applied to a vast set of applications such as predicting customer behavior, steering a robot, detect spam, and predict the folding of a protein, to name just a few.

In this course we provide different practical topics from the area of data mining and machine learning, the task is to design and implement an application. This application should be applied on data from different domains (provided by us).

The project allows students to gain practical knowledge and capabilities in the usage of data mining and machine learning algorithms.

  • Each topic is intended for a small group of 3-4 students.
  • Software should be written in Java or C++.
  • Each topic consists of a generic tool and its proof-of-concept application in an example domain.

Organization:

  • Groups can start immediately.
  • Each group is supposed to give at least two presentations:
    • a first presentation about ongoing work, showing a first implementation and commenting on problems(around mid term),
    • a final presentation of the whole work (end of term).

Registration:

  • You can register for topics from now on via email.
  • Topics will assigned in order of arrival of registration emails, and at the kick-off meeting.
  • If you state several topics in decreasing preference, you will get assigned the first one that is available.

Preliminaries: This course is especially suitable for students who attended either the Machine Learning or the the Image Processing lectures.

Tutor: Zeno Gantner