Introduction -- Part I: From Perception to Computation -- Audio Acquisition, Representation and Storage -- Image and Video Acquisition, Representation and Storage -- Part II: Machine Learning -- Machine Learning -- Bayesian Theory of Decision -- Clustering Methods -- Foundations of Statistical Learning and Model Selection -- Supervised Neural Networks and Ensemble Methods -- Kernel Methods -- Markovian Models for Sequential Data -- Feature Extraction Methods and Manifold Learning Methods -- Part III: Applications -- Speech and Handwriting Recognition -- Speech and Handwriting Recognition -- Video Segmentation and Keyframe Extraction -- Real-Time Hand Pose Recognition -- Automatic Personality Perception -- Part IV: Appendices -- Appendix A: Statistics -- Appendix B: Signal Processing -- Appendix C: Matrix Algebra -- Appendix D: Mathematical Foundations of Kernel Methods -- Index.