The matter is presented by means of animated slides and extensive derivations at the blackboard. The presentation is available on the internet. For further study four text books are recommended:

• Pattern classification : a unified view of statistical and neural approaches / Jürgen Schürmann New York [u.a.] : Wiley & Sons, 1996.
• Pattern classification / Richard O. Duda ; Peter E. Hart ; David G. Stork. - 2. ed. New York ; Weinheim [u.a.] : Wiley, 2001.
• Pattern recognition / Sergios Theodoridis and Konstantinos Koutroumbas. - 3. ed. Amsterdam ; Heidelberg[u.a.] : Elsevier Academic Press, 2006.
• Learning with Kernels : support vector machines, regularization, optimization, and beyond / Bernhard Schölkopf ; Alexander J. Smola Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : MIT Press, 2002.