Course Outline

Georg Fries, Peter Dannenmann, Patrick Metzler, Andreas Zinnen

Stefanie Szabo, Theresa Baier, Anke Schnauer, Julian Theis

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Chapter 1: Introduction to MATLAB Concepts

The MATLAB User Interface

Commands
Plotting
Numbers
Variables, Arrays and Matrices
Scripts and Functions
Control Flow
Examples

Dr. Georg Fries Modelling and Simulation using MATLAB 2

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Chapter 2: Modelling and Simulation

Background information on the applications of simulation techniques

Classification of simulation systems

Basic simulation and modelling techniques

The Model Development Life Cycle

Dr. Peter Dannenmann Modelling and Simulation using MATLAB 3

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Chapter 3: The Basic Problem Solving Toolbox

Toolbox for Solving Formal Problems

Analogies
Definitions
Divide and Conquer
Exchange of Given and Looked For
Plausibility Tests

Brute Force

Dr. Patrick Metzler Modelling and Simulation using MATLAB 4

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Chapter 4: Advanced Problem Solving Methods

Least Squares

Monte Carlo

Bridge Problem

Dr. Patrick Metzler Modelling and Simulation using MATLAB 5

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Chapter 5: Statistics and Image Processing

Random Numbers
Descriptive Statistics
Mean, Median, Mode
Probability Density Function pdf
Cumulative Distribution Function cdf
Random Number Generation
Intensity Transformation
Spatial Filtering
Smoothing, Sharpening, Unsharp Masking
Image Enhancement

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Chapter 6: Instance Based Machine Learning in a Nutshell

k-means clustering
k-nearest neighbours
Regression analysis/classification
Density estimation
Novelty detection using KDE
Nadaraya Watson and Silverman
Cross validation
Model evaluation

Dr. Andreas Zinnen Modelling and Simulation using MATLAB 7

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Chapter 7: Optical Character Recognition

Georg Fries, Theresa Baier, Anke Schnauer, Julian Theis

Theoretical principle of the

Tesseract Engine

Training of your own font

Hands on: License Plate

Recognition using OCR

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Chapter 8: Face Recognition

Georg Fries, Stefanie Szabo

What is face recognition?

Features, and how to use them
Classificators
Viola-Jones algorithm
Adaboost algorithm
Cascading classificators

Hands on: Let us detect a face

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