Pattern recognition

Shape detection techniques are an important aspect of computer vision and are used to transform raw image data into the symbolic representations needed for object recognition and location.

This book presents a thorough and detailed guide to image registration, outlining the principles and reviewing state-of-the-art tools and methods.

This important text/reference presents state-of-the-art research on intelligent vehicles, covering not only topics of object/obstacle detection and recognition, but also aspects of vehicle motion control.

This unique text/reference reviews algorithms for the exact or approximate solution of shortest-path problems, with a specific focus on a class of algorithms called rubberband algorithms.

Since their first inception, automatic reading systems have evolved substantially, yet the recognition of handwriting remains an open research problem due to its substantial variation in appearance.

From its early beginnings in the fifties and sixties the field of neural networks has been steadily growing.

This book contains the proceedings of the International Confer- ence on Artificial Neural Networks which was held between September 13 and 16 in Amsterdam.

Neural networks is a field of research which has enjoyed rapid expansion in both the academic and industrial research communities.

This book contains the 61 papers that were accepted for presenta- tion at the 1992 British Machine Vision Conference.

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in applying neural networks to dynamic systems identification (modelling), prediction and control.

This volume contains the papers from the first British Neural Network Society meeting held at Queen Elizabeth Hall, King's College, London on 18--20 April 1990.

Progress in Gestural Interaction contains papers presented at the first Gesture Workshop, which was designed to bring together researchers working on gesture-based interfaces and gestural interaction and to provide a forum for the presentation and exchange of ideas and research currently in progress.

From its early beginnings in the fifties and sixties, the field of neural networks has been steadily developing to become one of the most interdisciplinary areas of research within computer science.

Conventional applications of neural networks usually predict a single value as a function of given inputs.

International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR 98) at Plymouth represents an important meeting for advanced research in pattern recognition.

The conception of fresh ideas and the development of new techniques for Blind Source Separation and Independent Component Analysis have been rapid in recent years.

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From its early beginnings in the fifties and sixties, the field of neural networks has been steadily developing to become one of the most interdisciplinary areas of research within computer science.

Line drawing interpretation is a challenging area with enormous practical potential.

This is the third Workshop on Self-Organising Maps (WSOM) and its related techniques.

This book contains papers presented at the Noblesse Workshop on Non-linear model based image analysis held in Glasgow, 1-3 July 1998.

Active Contours deals with the analysis of moving images - a topic of growing importance within the computer graphics industry.

This volume collects together refereed versions of twenty-five papers presented at the 4th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop, held at University College London in April 1997.

This book contains the proceedings of the conference ANNIMAB-l, held 13-16 May 2000 in Goteborg, Sweden.

Cortical evoked potentials are of interest primarily as tests of changing neuronal excitabilities accompanying normal brain function.

Developments in technology have made it possible for speech output to be used in place of the more usual visual interface in both domestic and commercial devices.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 12th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets WIRN VIETRI-Ol, jointly organized by the International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies "e;Eduardo R.

Automatic (machine) recognition, description, classification, and groupings of patterns are important problems in a variety of engineering and scientific disciplines such as biology, psychology, medicine, marketing, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and remote sensing.

Neural networks have a learning capability but analysis of a trained network is difficult.

This pioneering text/reference presents a detailed focus on the use of machine vision techniques in industrial inspection applications.

This two-volume set, CCIS 2374 and CCIS 2375, constitutes the revised selected papers from the 37th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, CASA 2024, held in Wuhan, China, during June 5-7, 2024.

This unique text/reference provides a coherent and comprehensive overview of all aspects of video analysis of humans.

This book provides a broad survey of advanced pattern recognition techniques for human behavior analysis.

This book presents methods for estimating optical flow and scene flow motion with high accuracy, focusing on the practical application of these methods in camera-based driver assistance systems.

This highly anticipated new edition provides a comprehensive account of face recognition research and technology, spanning the full range of topics needed for designing operational face recognition systems.

This groundbreaking text examines the problem of user authentication from a completely new viewpoint.

Most biometric systems employed for human recognition require physical contact with, or close proximity to, a cooperative subject.

Large-scale video networks are of increasing importance in a wide range of applications.

This book presents a comprehensive treatment of visual analysis of behaviour from computational-modelling and algorithm-design perspectives.

This book presents a comprehensive review of image processing methods, for the analysis of land use in residential areas.

This book considers biometric technology in a broad light, integrating the concept seamlessly into mainstream IT, while discussing the cultural attitudes and the societal impact of identity management.

This timely text/reference presents the latest advances in various aspects of social media modeling and social media computing research.

Whole Body Interaction is "e;The integrated capture and processing of human signals from physical, physiological, cognitive and emotional sources to generate feedback to those sources for interaction in a digital environment"e; (England 2009).

Containing a wealth of real world advice and written from an operational perspective, "e;Practical Biometrics"e; examines the many issues raised by the application of biometric technologies to practical situations, with specific regard to wide scale public applications.

This book investigates sets of images consisting of many overlapping viewsofa scene, and how the information contained within them may be combined to produce single images of superior quality.

Medical imaging is an important topic which is generally recognised as key to better diagnosis and patient care.

This unique text/reference discusses in depth the two integral components of reconstructive surgery; fracture detection, and reconstruction from broken bone fragments.

Core Concepts in Data Analysis: Summarization, Correlation and Visualization provides in-depth descriptions of those data analysis approaches that either summarize data (principal component analysis and clustering, including hierarchical and network clustering) or correlate different aspects of data (decision trees, linear rules, neuron networks, and Bayes rule).