Pattern Recognition Group
Faculty of Applied Physics, Delft University of Technology
Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, The Netherlands {davidt,dick}@ph.tn.tudelft.nl pattern recognition, support vector classifiers, handwritten digit recognition

Support vector classifiers: a first look

David Tax, Dick de Ridder and Robert P.W. Duin

• Introduction
• Support vector classifiers
  • The optimal hyperplane
  • The soft margin hyperplane
  • Dot products in feature space
• Experiments
  • Two dimensional problems
  • Handwritten digit recognition
• Some caveats
• Outlook
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• References
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