during the December holidays (around christmas) , i had went to CDAC-Kharghar Mumbai , to attend a Machine Learning Workshop.
The whole experience was amazing
It Kicked off , with Dr. Sasi Kumar (research Director) taking lecture on motivations for machine learning., anyways my motivation was for Image registration.
The Talk consisted of brief introduction on What features were , and about how to get most of out your machine learning algorithm - "Feature Engineering" , A lot of machine learning terms were Introduced.
Then Came Talks on Clustering and Decision Tree learning..
Followed by the Amazing lecure by Shekar on Neural Networks, he was really successful in giving the intuitive feel on how the the Training and Classification works on a NN.
After that we were taught SVM , by a lecturer whose name i forgot.
He did a fair job at it, but i did not learn anything new in it, It was meant as a introduction only and he at most part stayed away from optimization blocks of the algorithm
After all this final session was taken by Dr Sasi Kumar who explained why Feature "Engineering" and the Right Mix(fusion,ensemble) learning could do wonders and why we should stay away from Over fitting
he ended with "if it works 100%, its not Artificial Intelligence "
CDAC - Centre for Development for Advanced Computing - A government Institution is one of the best of its kind. The People were friendly, and if you stay at CDAC for a couple of days , you might never want to leave the place :)
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