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Introduction to Syntactic Pattern Recognition

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Book cover Syntactic Pattern Recognition, Applications

Part of the book series: Communication and Cybernetics ((COMMUNICATION,volume 14))

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Most of the developments in pattern recognition research during the past decade deal with the decision-theoretic approach [1.1–11] and its applications. In some pattern recognition problems, the structural information which describes each pattern is important, and the recognition process includes not only the capability of assigning the pattern to a particular class (to classify it), but also the capacity to describe aspects of the pattern which make it ineligible for assignment to another class. A typical example of this class of recognition problem is picture recognition, or more generally speaking, scene analysis. In this class of recogniton problems, the patterns under consideration are usually quite complex and the number of features required is often very large which makes the idea of describing a complex pattern in terms of a (hierarchical) composition of simpler subpatterns very attractive. Also, when the patterns are complex and the number of possible descriptions is very large, it is impractical to regard each description as defining a class (for example, in fingerprint and face identification problems, recognition of continuous speech, Chinese characters, etc.). Consequently, the requirement of recognition can be satisfied only by a description for each pattern rather than the simple task of classification.

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Fu, K.S. (1977). Introduction to Syntactic Pattern Recognition. In: Fu, K.S. (eds) Syntactic Pattern Recognition, Applications. Communication and Cybernetics, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66438-0_1

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