Structural Pattern Recognition

Syntactic and Structural Pattern Recognition

This book is currently the only one on this subject containing both introductory material and advanced recent research results. It presents, at one end, fundamental concepts and notations developed in syntactic and structural pattern recognition and at the other, reports on the current state of the art with respect to both methodology and applications. In particular, it includes artificial intelligence related techniques, which are likely to become very important in future pattern recognition.The book consists of individual chapters written by different authors. The chapters are grouped into broader subject areas like “Syntactic Representation and Parsing”, “Structural Representation and Matching”, “Learning”, etc. Each chapter is a self-contained presentation of one particular topic. In order to keep the original flavor of each contribution, no efforts were undertaken to unify the different chapters with respect to notation. Naturally, the self-containedness of the individual chapters results in some redundancy. However, we believe that this handicap is compensated by the fact that each contribution can be read individually without prior study of the preceding chapters. A unification of the spectrum of material covered by the individual chapters is provided by the subject and author index included at the end of the book.

Structural Pattern Recognition

Ten Lectures on Statistical and Structural Pattern Recognition

This monograph explores the close relationship of variouswell-known pattern recognition problems that have so far beenconsidered independent. These relationships became apparent with thediscovery of formal procedures for addressing known problems and theirgeneralisations. The generalised problem formulations were analysedmathematically and unified algorithms were found. The main scientificcontribution of this book is the unification of two main streams inpattern recognition - the statistical one and the structuralone. The material is presented in the form of ten lectures, each ofwhich concludes with a discussion with a student."Audience: " The book is intended for both researchers and studentswho work in knowledge management and organisation, machine learning, statistics, and symbolic and algebraic manipulations. It provides newviews and numerous original results in their field. Written in aneasily accessible style, it introduces the basic building blocks ofpattern recognition, demonstrates the beauty and the pitfalls ofscientific research, and encourages good habits in readingmathematical text.