Structural Analysis of Complex Aerial Photographs

It is most appropriate that the first volume to appear in the series "Advanced Applications in Pattern Recognition" should be this monograph by Nagao and Matsuyama. The work described here is a deep unification and synthesis of the two fundamental approaches to pat­ tern recognition: numerical (also known as "statistical") and struc­ tural ("linguistic," "syntactic"). The power and unity of the me...