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Introduction Pattern recognition techniques are used to automatically classify physical objects (handwritten characters, tissue samples) or abstract multidimensional patterns (n?points in?d?dimensions) into known or possibly unknown categories. A number of commercial pattern recognition systems are available for character recognition, handwriting recognition, document classification, fingerprint classification, speech and speaker recognition, white blood cell (leukocyte) classification, military target recognition, etc. Most machine vision systems employ pattern recognition techniques to identify objects for sorting, inspection, and assembly. The design of a pattern recognition system requires the following modules: (i) sensing, (ii) feature extraction and selection, (iii) decision making and (iv) performance evaluation. The availability of low cost and high resolution sensors (e.g., digital cameras, microphones and scanners) and data sharing over the Internet have resulted in huge repositories of digitized documents (text, speech, image and video). Need for efficient archiving and retrieval of this data has fostered the development of pattern recognition algorithms in new application domains (e.g., text, image and video retrieval, bioinformatics, and face recognition). Design of a pattern recognition system typically follows one of the following approaches: (i) template matching, (ii) statistical methods, (iii) syntactic methods and (iv) neural networks. This course will introduce the fundamentals of statistical pattern recognition with examples from several application areas. Techniques for analyzing multidimensional data of various types and scales along with algorithms for projection, dimensionality reduction, clustering and classification of data will be explained. The course will present various approaches to exploratory data analysis and classifier design so students can make judicious choices when confronted with real pattern recognition problems. It is impo