Pattern recognition

This book contains a representative cross section of critically reviewed papers from the Third International Symposium on Handwriting and Computer Applications (Montreal, 1987).

Character and handwriting recognition by computers is attracting much attention particularly because of its potential for application in many areas such as office automation, bank check processing, recognition of postal addresses and ZIP Codes, signature verification, and document and text recognition.

From the participation of researchers in most important international conferences in the field, it is noted that activities in automatic document processing have been continuously growing.

In the age of e-society, handwritten signature processing is an enabling technology in a multitude of fields in the "e;digital agenda"e; of many countries, ranging from e-health to e-commerce, from e-government to e-justice, from e-democracy to e-banking, and smart cities.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 7ICIAP held in Monopoli, Italy.

These proceedings present the state of the art in Spanish research on pattern recognition, image processing, speech recognition, and artificial neural networks and applications to medicine, geology, control etc.

The book is an extensive compilation of the papers presented at the IAPR International Workshop on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition SSPR'94.

Handwriting Recognition has become a very important research area which is attracting more and more scientists.

This book is concerned with linear and nonlinear transformations of digitized images and patterns.

This book presents 17 selected papers from the 4th International Graphonomics Society Conference, held at the University of Trondheim (Norway) in July 1989.

This is an up-to-date volume of selected and expanded papers originating from Vision Interface 88, a conference held in Edmonton, Canada.

This volume contains 18 papers of high quality, selected to represent the work that is being developed by Spanish research groups in pattern recognition and image analysis.

The neural network paradigm with its various advantages might be the next promising bridge between artificial intelligence and pattern recognition that will help with the conceptualization of new computational artifacts.

Pattern recognition is an active area of research with many applications, some of which have reached commercial maturity.

This book contains a selection of 14 papers presented at the workshop organised by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Technical Committee on Syntactical and Structural Pattern Recognition, at Pont-a-Mousson, 1988.

Patterns are becoming the focal point of many areas of scientific endeavour in recent years owing to the progress of computer science, laboratory experiments and observations, and analytical tools.

The revitalization of neural network research in the past few years has already had a great impact on research and development in pattern recognition and artificial intelligence.

This book is currently the only one on this subject containing both introductory material and advanced recent research results.

This book covers parallel algorithms and architectures and VLSI chips for a range of problems in image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition and artificial intelligence.

Optical character recognition and document image analysis have become very important areas with a fast growing number of researchers in the field.

This book covers the principles and recent research results in intelligent image database systems design.

Traditional methods for image scene interpretation and understanding are based mainly on such single-threaded procedural paradigms as hypothesize-and-test or syntactic parsing.

This book contains 31 selected papers (out of 136 accepted) from the 9th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, held in Uppsala, Sweden, 6-9 June 1995.

This volume deals with the following topics: 2-D, 3-D automata and grammars, parallel architecture for image processing, parallel digital geometry algorithms, data allocation strategies for parallel image processing algorithms, complexity analysis of parallel image operators.

This volume highlights some of the multidisciplinary aspects of automatic signature verification.

Interest in the automatic processing and analysis of document images has been rapidly increasing during the past few years.

This book provides a detailed assessment of the state of the art in automated techniques for the analysis of digital mammogram images.

Thinning is a technique widely used in the pre-processing stage of a pattern recognition system to compress data and to enhance feature extraction in the subsequent stage.

More than ten years have passed since the untimely death of King-Sun Fu, one of the great pioneers in the field of pattern recognition.

This book provides an overview of the state of the art in research and development of systems for document image analysis.

This book contains a selection of papers presented at the Fourth International Workshop on Parallel Image Analysis, held at the Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallelisme of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France.

This book is a comprehensive treatise on the theory and applications of moment functions in image analysis.

Advances in Handwriting Recognition contains selected key papers from the 6th International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR '98), held in Taejon, Korea from 12 to 14, August 1998.

In recent years, rapid progress has been made in computer processing of oriental languages, and the research developments in this area have resulted in tremendous changes in handwriting processing, printed oriental character recognition, document analysis and recognition, automatic input methodologies for oriental languages, etc.

Half a billion years of evolution have turned the eye into an unbelievable pattern detector.

This is not a purely mathematical book.

RAM-based networks are a class of methods for building pattern recognition systems.

This book contains selected papers presented at Vision Interface '98, held in Vancouver, Canada, in June 1998.

This book was conceived from the realization that there was a need to update recent work on invariants in a single volume providing a useful set of references and pointers to related work.

The field of pattern recognition has seen enormous progress since its beginnings almost 50 years ago.

Pattern recognition (PR) consists of three important tasks: feature analysis, clustering and classification.

Hidden Markov models (HMMs) originally emerged in the domain of speech recognition.

The use of pattern recognition has become more and more important in seismic oil exploration.

This volume, containing contributions by experts from all over the world, is a collection of 21 articles which present review and research material describing the evolution and recent developments of various pattern recognition methodologies, ranging from statistical, syntactic/linguistic, fuzzy-set-theoretic, neural, genetic-algorithmic and rough-set-theoretic to hybrid soft computing, with significant real-life applications.

Neural networks and fuzzy techniques are among the most promising approaches to pattern recognition.

This is the first book to deal with automatic diatom identification.

The development of effective methodologies for the analysis of multi-temporal data is one of the most important and challenging issues that the remote sensing community will face in the next few years.

This volume provides a collection of sixteen articles containing review and new material.

This volume contains papers describing state-of-the-art technology for advanced multimedia systems.