Pattern recognition

This book explores some of the emerging scientific and technological areas in which the need for data analytics arises and is likely to play a significant role in the years to come.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation, LVA/ICA 2018, held in  Guildford, UK, in July 2018.

This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPRAM 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, in February 2017.

This book introduces medical imaging, its security requirements, and various security mechanisms using data hiding approaches.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the Second International Workshop on Understanding Human Activities through 3D Sensors, UHA3DS 2016, that was held in conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2016, held in Cancun, Mexico, in December 2016.

This authoritative and comprehensive handbook is the definitive work on the current state of the art of Biometric Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) - also known as Biometric Anti-Spoofing.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition, MCPR 2018, held in Puebla, Mexico, in June 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2018, held in Minsk, Belarus in June 2018.

This volume presents the peer-reviewed proceedings of the international conference Imaging, Vision and Learning Based on Optimization and PDEs (IVLOPDE), held in Bergen, Norway, in August/September 2016.

With an evolutionary advancement of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, a rapid increase of data volumes and a significant improvement of computation powers, machine learning becomes hot in different applications.

The book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date review of fuzzy pattern recognition.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of ensemble learning in the field of feature selection (FS), which consists of combining the output of multiple methods to obtain better results than any single method.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, EMMCVPR 2017, held in Venice, Italy, in October/November 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 21st International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2018, held in Parma, Italy, in April 2018, collocated with the Evo* 2018 events EuroGP, EvoCOP, and EvoMUSART.

This book presents the latest computational models of rhythm and meter that are based on number theory, combinatorics and pattern matching.

This timely text/reference reviews the state of the art of big data analytics, with a particular focus on practical applications.

This edited volume focuses on the latest and most impactful advancements of multimedia data globally available for environmental and earth biodiversity.

This SpringerBrief describes how to build a rigorous end-to-end mathematical framework for deep neural networks.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 22nd Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2017, held in Valparaiso, Chile, in November 2017.

This textbook presents a concise, accessible and engaging first introduction to deep learning, offering a wide range of connectionist models which represent the current state-of-the-art.

This book explores recent perspectives on type-2 fuzzy sets.

This important text/reference presents a comprehensive review of techniques for taxonomy matching, discussing matching algorithms, analyzing matching systems, and comparing matching evaluation approaches.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration, MIKE 2017, held in Hyderabad, India, in December 2017.

This three-volume set LNCS 10666, 10667, and 10668 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2017, held in Shanghai, China, in September 2017.

This three-volume set LNCS 10666, 10667, and 10668 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2017, held in Shanghai, China, in September 2017.

This three-volume set LNCS 10666, 10667, and 10668 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 9thInternational Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2017, held in Shanghai, China, in September 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Brain Informatics, BI 2017, held in Beijing, China, in November 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of seven workshops held at the 19th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2017, in Catania, Italy, in September 2017: First International Workshop on Brain-Inspired Computer Vision - WBICV 2017; Social Signal Processing and Beyond - SSPandBE 2017; Automatic affect analysis and synthesis - 3AS 2017; Background learning for detection and tracking from RGBD Videos - RGBD 2017; Natural human-computer Interaction and ecological perception in immersive Virtual and Augmented Reality - NIVAR 2017; 1st International Workshop on Biometrics as-a-service: cloud-based technology, systems and applications - IWBAAS 2017; 3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management - MADiMa 2017.

The problems it addresses include emotion representation, annotation of music excerpts, feature extraction, and machine learning.

This book describes a new pattern discovery approach based on the combination among rules between Perceptually Important Points (PIPs) and the Symbolic Aggregate approximation (SAX) representation optimized by Genetic Algorithm (GA).

Recognition, CCBR 2017, held in Shenzhen, China, in October 2017.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, PReMI 2017,held in Kolkata, India, in December 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2017, held in Guilin, China, in October/November 2017.

The two-volume set LNCS 10484 and 10485 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2017, held in Catania, Italy, in September 2017.

The two-volume set LNCS 10484 and 10485 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2017, held in Catania, Italy, in September 2017.

This book addresses surveillance in action-related applications, and presents novel research on military, civil and cyber surveillance from an international team of experts.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications, SISAP 2017, held in Munich, Germany, in October 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing, SLSP 2017, held in Le Mans, France, in October 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the ICVGIP 2016 Satellite Workshops, WCVA, DAR, and MedImage, held in Guwahati, India, in December 2016.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligence Science and Big Data Engineering, IScIDE 2017, held in Dalian, China, in September 2017.

This important text/reference presents the first dedicated review of techniques for contactless 3D fingerprint identification, including novel and previously unpublished research.

This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of the First International Workshop on Graphs in Biomedical Image Analysis, GRAIL 2017, the 6th International Workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Computational Anatomy, MFCA 2017, and the Third International Workshop on Imaging Genetics, MICGen 2017, held in conjunction with the 20th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2017, in Quebec City, QC, Canada, in September 2017.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 28th International Tyrrhenian Workshop on Digital Communication, TIWDC 2017, which took place in Palermo, Italy, in September 2017.

This book presents recent developments and research trends in the field of feature selection for data and pattern recognition, highlighting a number of latest advances.

This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of the International Workshop on Computational Methods for Molecular Imaging, CMMI 2017, the International Workshop on Reconstruction and Analysis of Moving Body Organs, RAMBO 2017, and the International Stroke Workshop: Imaging and Treatment Challenges, SWITCH 2017, held in conjunction with the 20th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2017, in Quebec City, QC, Canada, in September 2017.

This book provides a readable and elegant presentation of the principles of anomaly detection,providing an easy introduction for newcomers to the field.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, MDAI 2017, held in Kitakyushu, Japan, in October 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Connectomics in NeuroImaging, CNI 2017, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2017 in Quebec City, Canada, in September 2017.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2017, held in Cape Town, South Africa, in September 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 39th German Conference on Pattern Recognition, GCPR 2017, held in Basel, Switzerland, in September 2017.