1、Scientific Computing科學計算Roger Jang (張智星 )CSIE Dept, National Taiwan University2/17Course Participation via Slido URL: http:/ Event code: computing3/17BACKGROUND “Linear Algebra” and “Numerical Methods” tends to be very dry Numerous theorems Rank, null space Linear transformation Eigenvalues Gauss el
2、imination QR decomposition Where is the application? “Scientific Computing” come to the rescue! A course to bridge the gap between LA/NM and applications With emphases on Problem solving Hands-on coding Data & approach visualization Real-world applications4/17OBJECTIVES (1/2) Methodologies Least-squ
3、ares estimate Approximation Interpolation PDF modeling Machine learning Clustering Classification Dynamic programming Numerical optimization Programming Matrix computation Programming Paradigms Debugging Documentation Animation & visualization Basics of multimedia processing, including texts, audio,
4、 images Everyone is doing this,Including Obama!For course evaluation5/17OBJECTIVES (2/2) Applications Financial computing Loan and mortgage Insurance Least-squares estimate Data fitting Data clustering Image data compression Object identification Classification & retrieval Texts, images, audio Princ
5、ipal component analysis Dimensionality reduction Data fitting Page rank Googles page rank Team ranking Dynamic programming String similarity Object tracking Numerical optimization6/17Prerequisites Prerequisites for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) students Calculus: strong pr
6、erequisite You need to know how to do differentiation Linear algebra: strong prerequisite You need to know matrix operations, determinant, etc. Probability: weak prerequisite For non-STEM students Please talk to me first before taking the course7/17TEXT AND REFERENCE BOOKS Textbooks MATLAB程式設計 【 入門篇
7、 】 by Roger Jang Online tutorial of Data Clustering and Pattern Recognition by Roger Jang Reference books Experiments with MATLAB by Cleve Moler Numerical computing with MATLAB by Cleve Moler MATLAB程式設計 【 進階篇 】 by Roger JangNote that there is no single book thatcovers all aspects of scientific compu
8、ting.8/17Corpus Collection We need to collect corpus for assignments Face recognition Your face photos Tone recognition Your voice of 媽麻馬罵 , etc Speaker recognition Your voice Query by humming Your singing Age estimation from face Your face photos at different ages 9/17INSTRUCTOR AND TAS Instructor
9、Roger Jang (張智星 ) Email: jangmirlab.org Phone 0953-154-045 (10am-10pm) Skype: roger_jang Office hour Right after the class By appointment TAs 范哲誠、蘇俞睿、周宗鴻、陳宣伯 Email: ta4scmirlab.org Office hour One hour per week for each TA (To be announced on FB)Quiz!勿私訊！10/17Important Links Course website: for schedule and homework, etc. SC on FB: for announcements & discussions, etc. (No further email notification for announcements) Course recordings 2017 Questions/answers log system CEIBA: for mailing list, records of scores, etc. Toolboxes written by Roger Jang
