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| | Description | This book provides professionals with a large selection of algorithms, kernels and solutions ready for implementation and suitable for standard pattern discovery problems in fields such as bioinformatics, text analysis and image analysis. It also serves as an introduction for students and researchers to the growing field of kernel-based pattern analysis, demonstrating with examples how to handcraft an algorithm or a kernel for a new specific application, and covering all the necessary conceptual and mathematical tools to do so. | |
| | Product Details | | Author: | John Shawe-Taylor | | Hardcover: | 476 pages | | Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | | Publication Date: | June 28, 2004 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0521813972 | | Product Length: | 10.02 inches | | Product Width: | 6.84 inches | | Product Height: | 1.06 inches | | Product Weight: | 2.41 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.8 inches | | Package Width: | 7.0 inches | | Package Height: | 1.1 inches | | Package Weight: | 2.25 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 8 reviews |
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28 of 33 found the following review helpful:
 coherent and accessible reference, ready-to-use algorithms Feb 22, 2005
By machine learning guru
This work presents a coherent overview of an important field in machine learning. The unifying framework of kernel methods has proven state of the art results and the community has been waiting for a book like this to make both theory and practice of kernel methods accesssible for readers of all different backgrounds (researchers, students, practioners from both academia and industry, ...).
It is theoretically well-founded, the resulting algorithms are well-explained and made accessible for practioners by providing pseudo-code and online, ready-to-use matlab code.
This book nicely complements the previous, yellow book, written by the same authors. Indeed, after "getting into the field" by reading the accessible introduction to support vector machines (SVMs), it was clear to me that SVMs was only an example of a signifcantly larger framework, i.e., kernel methods. The blue book is the reference book about that larger framework I have been waiting for since then. I particularly like the way the book is set up, making clear the modular, flexible approach in kernel methods.
20 of 24 found the following review helpful:
 Nice introduction, but no more Aug 11, 2006
By gilgamash
Well, at first I was petrified to find a book that sounded like it deeply explores the subject of kernel methods. But all in all, it did not quite achieve what I hoped for. As a practical approach, when it comes to implementation, it serves nicely as a reference. The deeper mathematical roots of kernels (especially when it comes to measure theory and functional analysis) are not dealt with at all or just scratched at the very surface. The notation is sometimes awkward, mentioning for example the representation of an object in a given vector space with respect to the basis. And: Too much copied and pasted from the former book about SVMs. Basically, reading papers of Carmeli, Aronszajn and others will give you a much deeper insight into the subject.
22 of 28 found the following review helpful:
A Useful Reference on Kernel Methods Feb 21, 2005
By Data Miner
The book is divided into 3 parts. The theory is all in part I,
the rest of the book is a cook-book with plenty of matlab code.
The website contains most of the same code + data online. Readable, complete.
19 of 24 found the following review helpful:
THE reference work Feb 21, 2005
By Tijl De Bie
"tijl"
This book will, without doubt, become THE reference work in kernel methods for pattern recognition, and a must read for pattern recognition researchers and practitioners in general.
It's built up in a nicely modular, accessible and didactive way, helping the reader understand thoroughly what kernel methods are all about and importantly, how to use them. This makes the book very useful as a cook book for practitioners, as well as a text book for students.
The book covers all the relevant topics in the state of the art of kernel methods, a field of research in which the authors have been a driving force since the beginning. Even so, they managed to resist the temptation from squeezing in the(ir) latest (potentially still unstable) results, which greatly enhances the timelessness of the book.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
An excellent treatment of kernel methods. Nov 20, 2009
By Almon D. Ing
"Almon Ing"
I am a graduate student who studies perceptual systems. My research interests are neuroscience, vision, statistics, classification, and machine learning.
I recently discovered that kernel methods are valuable tools for solving classification problems in a nearly optimal way. Apparently they are also useful for regression.
This is the third textbook that I purchased for the purpose of understanding kernel methods. I have scarcely encountered a more elegantly written text. It does a superb job of building intuition and is also mathematically rigorous. Such texts are rare.
This is the first textbook that I rely on when it comes to kernel methods.
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