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HANDBOOK OF PATTERN RECOGNITION AND COMPUTER VISION
3rd Edition

edited by C H Chen (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA) & P S P Wang (Northeastern University, USA)

The book provides an up-to-date and authoritative treatment of pattern recognition and computer vision, with chapters written by leaders in the field. On the basic methods in pattern recognition and computer vision, topics range from statistical pattern recognition to array grammars to projective geometry to skeletonization, and shape and texture measures. Recognition applications include character recognition and document analysis, detection of digital mammograms, remote sensing image fusion, and analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging data, etc. There are six chapters on current activities in human identification. Other topics include moving object tracking, performance evaluation, content-based video analysis, musical style recognition, number plate recognition, etc.


Contents:

  • Basic Methods in Pattern Recognition
  • Basic Methods in Computer Vision
  • Recognition Applications
  • Human Identification
  • System and Technology


Readership: Graduate students, academics, practitioners, researchers, computer scientists, electrical and medical engineers.

652pp Pub. date: Jan 2005
ISBN 978-981-256-105-3
981-256-105-6
US$162 / £88


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Updated on 4 July 2008