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A Review of Optical Pattern Recognition Techniques

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Pattern Recognition

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Automatic pattern recognition is the subject of a large literature, much of it theoretical, dealing primarily with optical pattern recognition techniques, and concentrating on the principles of recognition rather than the detailed physics and technology of optoelectronic transduction. Mathematical, sequential, and interactive techniques are mentioned only briefly because they have already been well reviewed by various authors.

This chapter was originally published in Opto-Electronies, Vol.6, 1974, pp. 319-332. Permission to republish it was kindly supplied by Chapman & Hall Ltd.

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Ullmann, J.R. (1978). A Review of Optical Pattern Recognition Techniques. In: Batchelor, B.G. (eds) Pattern Recognition. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4154-3_2

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