Winter Week 3 - Short Update

With no lab session this week, this will be a short update. I continued with model research by brushing up on machine learning concepts.

I'm taking a course in machine learning (BE C175) to help learn the subject concurrently. We covered ordinary and non-linear least squares regression, which are the simplest machine learning models which we may choose to implement as a baseline test. In addition, I learned about cross-validation and bootstrapping during the most important lecture of the course, according to my professor. This course is very helpful for developing background and intuition for the chord recognition project.

I also continued to research Support Vector Machines, Hidden Markov Models, and a few other methods. Next week, I will begin implementing some simple models using these techniques and testing their accuracy.