Machine Learning

Preface

Machine Learning is a name that is gaining popularity as an umbrella for methods that have been studied and developed for many decades in different scientific communities and under different names, such as Statistical Learning, Statistical Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, Adaptive Signal Processing, Image Processing and Analysis, System Identification and Control, Data Mining and Information Retrieval, Computer Vision, and Computational Learning. The name “Machine Learning” indicates what all these disciplines have in common, that is, to learn from data, and then make predictions. What one tries to learn from data is their underlying structure and regularities, via the development of a model, which can then be used to provide ...