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ILOs and Grading Criteria

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) of the Pattern Recognition (PR) course: After passing the course, students should be able to:

  • Explain about the task of pattern recognition - deciding whether different patterns exist in observed signals and are they worth to recognize.
  • Describe a general model for pattern recognition system and formulate optimal cost functions.
  • Formulate and analyze pattern recognition problem in a probabilistic framework, and estimate recognizer performance.
  • Describe a pattern recognition problem for a sequence of observed signals and address the problem using hidden Markov model (HMM).
  • Design systems and algorithms for pattern recognition. Critically compare the algorithms in a trade-off between complexity and performance. Finally report the results.
  • Understand, implement and analyze methods for automatic training of pattern recognition system.
  • Understand principles of Bayesian learning methods and apply them for relevant problems.

 The above ILOs are improvement over the previous ILOs in the course.

Currently the course grading comprises of two assessment parts: (1) Project (2.5 hp) – A,B,C,D,E,Fx,F; and (2) Exam (5 hp) - A,B,C,D,E,Fx,F. Existing projects have 4 parts divided into two main tasks – implementation and verification. The project is assessed via oral presentation and report.

There will be some change in assessment strategies and grading in future. The new course code will be EQ2341. We will have two Master Tests as class-tests where peer review is the way to grade. The grade distributions for assessments will be:

  • Project – 2.5 hp
  • Master Test 1 – 1 hp
  • Master Test 2 – 1 hp
  • Exam – 3 hp

Among these, master tests are not mandatory to attend and/or pass. But the project and exam are mandatory to attend with satisfactory grades to pass the course. Achieving a high grade requires high performance in all assessments including master tests.

Master Tests will be around 20 minutes and may be sudden. The objective is students are at par with the class teacher. They are regular in their studies. So, Master Tests mainly will examine concepts, but no lengthy problem solution capabilities.