SVMs demystified...

I came across an excellent blog 'Onionesque Reality' by Shubhendu Trivedi. One article entitled "Demystifying Support Vector Machines for Beginners" does exactly what it says on the tin. Trivedi also blogs how SVMs can be used in Face Recognition and even attempts to answer why SVMs are so called.

Two books which are recommended caught my interest:

"Support Vector Machines and other Kernel Based Learning methods" by Nello Cristianini and John-Shawe Taylor.

"Learning with Kernels" by Bernhard Scholkopf and Alexander Smola. (Perfect book for beginners)

I've a lot of reading to do!

And before I forget, this lecture on SVM is meant to be awesome.