Christopher M. Bishop

Matlab® software packages for download

Before joining Microsoft I was Professor of Computer Science in the Neural Computing Research Group (NCRG) at Aston University. The following Matlab® packages can be downloaded from the NCRG web site.

GTM, which stands for generative topographic mapping, is a model for density modelling and data visualisation, developed by Christopher M. Bishop, Markus Svensen and Christopher Williams.

PhiVis is Probabilistic Hierarchical Interactive Visualization. It is a toolbox of Matlab® functions for visual analysis of multivariate continuous data. It is powerful in that it generates and links multiple projections of datasets with potentially complex structure, but is also statistically principled, being based on hierarchical mixtures of latent variable Gaussian density models.

The Netlab simulation software is designed to provide the central tools necessary for the simulation of theoretically well founded neural network algorithms for use in teaching, research and applications development.

It consists of a toolbox of Matlab® functions and scripts based on the approach and techniques described in Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition by Christopher M. Bishop, (Oxford University Press, 1995), but also including more recent developments in the field.

There is an accompanying text book Netlab: Algorithms for Pattern Recognition (2002) written by Ian T. Nabney and published by Springer.

 

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