Pattern Recognition and Image Preprocessing

Describing non-parametric and parametric theoretic classification and the training of discriminant functions, this second edition includes new and expanded sections on neural networks, Fisher's discriminant, wavelet transform, and the method of principal components.

Auteur

Sing T. Bow

Contenu

Pattern recognition: supervised and unsupervised learning in pattern recognition; nonparametric decision theoretic classification; nonparametric (distribution-free) training of discriminant functions; statistical discriminant functions; clusteringanalysis and unsupervised learning; dimensionality reduction and feature selection. Neural networks for pattern recognition: multilayer perception; radial basis function networks; hamming net and Kohonen self-organizing feature map; the Hopfield model.Data preprocessing for pictorial pattern recognition: preprocessing in the spatial domain; pictorial data preposessing and shape analysis; transforms and image processing in the transform doamin; wavelets and wavelet transforms. Applications: exemplaryapplications. Practical concerns of image processing and pattern recognition: computer system architectures for image processing and pattern recognition. Appendices: digital images; image model and discrete mathematics; digital image fundamentals; matrixmanipulation; Eigenvectors and Eigenvalves of an operator; notation.