This book provides a deep but still self-contained introduction to Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and their role in statistical problems.

Ingo Steinwart is a researcher in the machine learning group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He works on support vector machines and related methods.

Andreas Christmann is Professor of Stochastics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Bayreuth. He works in particular on support vector machines and robust statistics.