week 4: structural descriptions (cont.)

• Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
• the FORMS system (Zhu and Yuille)
• appearance-based parts (Camps)

PCA

Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

slide 2

FORMS etc.

the slides (in PDF)

supplementary material

• a brief tutorial on PCA
• a longer tutorial on PCA
• the Branch & Bound search algorithm
• the Minimum Description Length Principle — the MDL on the Web site
• a one-slide summary of the Bayes Theorem
• a brief introduction to graphical models and Bayesian networks