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Understanding Classification Applications

The document discusses various applications of classification, including face recognition, character recognition, speech recognition, medical diagnosis, and web advertising. It highlights the challenges of classifying high-dimensional data and the need for automated methods, such as machine learning, to learn patterns. The document also defines different types of classification, including binary, multiclass, and multi-label classification.

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Understanding Classification Applications

The document discusses various applications of classification, including face recognition, character recognition, speech recognition, medical diagnosis, and web advertising. It highlights the challenges of classifying high-dimensional data and the need for automated methods, such as machine learning, to learn patterns. The document also defines different types of classification, including binary, multiclass, and multi-label classification.

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Classification: Applications

• Aka Pattern recognition

• Face recognition: Pose, lighting, occlusion

(glasses, beard), make-up, hair style

• Character recognition: Different handwriting

styles.

• Speech recognition: Temporal dependency. – Use of a dictionary or the syntax of the language. –
Sensor fusion: Combine multiple modalities; eg, visual

(lip image) and acoustic for speech

• Medical diagnosis: From symptoms to illnesses

• Web Advertizing: Predict if a user clicks on an ad

on the Internet.

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Classification

• Everyday, all the time we classify things.

• Eg crossing the street: – Is there a car coming?– At what speed?– How far is it to the other side?–
Classification: Safe to walk or not!!!

Problems in classifying data

• Often high dimension of data.

• Hard to put up simple rules.

• Amount of data.

• Need automated ways to deal with the data.

• Use computers – data processing, statistical

analysis, try to learn patterns from the data

(Machine Learning)

Classification

• Here the goal is to learn a mapping from inputs x to outputs

y,

• Where

y ∈{ 1,...,C}, with C being the number of classes.

• If C =2, this is called binary classification (in which case we

often assume y ∈{ 0,1});


• if C>2, this is called multiclass classification .

• If the class labels are not mutually exclusive (e.g.,

somebody may be classified as tall and strong), we call it

multi-label classification, but this is best viewed as

predicting multiple related binary class labels (a so-called

multiple output model).

• When we use the term “classification”, we will mean

multiclass classification with a single output, unless we

state otherwise.

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