Since yesterday

Worked on preprocessing chapter some more - wrote first draft of section on textons and local binary patterns. Corrected a bunch of mistakes in Chapters 5 and 8. Improved a figure in chapter 5. Added a couple of questions to chapter 3 and one for chapter 4. Added another algorithm to the recipes section. Phew.

Progress

Quite a lot of progress since last week. I've started working on the text for the preprocessing and subspace chapters. Both are in horrible shape, so don't look at them yet. I've also added the problems back in and added in a few more in the early chapters. I've ironed out a few remaining bugs in the first couple of chapters, rearranged the sections in Chapter 6 and worked quite a bit on the regression chapter (chapter 7). I added a new figure to Chapter 3 to try to explain the predictive distribution with Bayesian estimation better. Enjoy.

Another update

Pretty much worked my way to the end of the classification chapter now. Just figures out what applications I want to use. I've also fixed some small mistakes in chapters 1 and 2, added a figure to chapter 3 and put in some very preliminary problems.

Two for two

Two updates in two days. Who would have thought it? Since yesterday I have worked more on the classification section - added two more figures and improved the text a lot in the boosting section. I've also added in some problems to the early chapters and corrected a heinous error in the figure that shows the different covariances for the Normal distribution. This was pointed out to me by Oisin Mac Aodha. Ta.

Classification

Apologies if you've been having trouble downloading the book for the last couple of days. I think I've sorted this out now, but let me know if you have trouble with time-outs or whatever. In the meantime I've made all of the figures for the classification chapter and am now rewriting the text so that it is slightly more comprehensible. I've also written a draft preface and added an acknowledgements section, so if you mail me errata you will see your name added to this.

Back

Back from a not particularly relaxing vacation (a lot of 5am starts!) but in a good state of mind to make some serious progress. Since the last version I have rearranged the chapters a little. I've corrected a bunch of mistakes in the regression chapter (should now be just about readable) and I've also started work on the classification chapter. This should be ongoing for the next couple of weeks. Thanks to Oisin Mac Aodha who spotted a bunch of errata. These are fixed now as well.

Finally

I notice that I have impressively failed to make an update to the book for a month now. Actually there has been a lot of work going on - I have almost completed a first draft of the regression chapter. I have also corrected many mistakes from Chapter 6 that were helpfully identified by Yun Fu. Also Gabriel Brostow drew my attention to a few issues in Chapters 1 and 2 that have now been sorted out. I'm going on holiday for two weeks now, but I'm going to come back and attend to the classification chapter when I return on Sept 20th.