Abstract :
Extensive research and development has taken place over the last twenty years in the areas of pattern recognition. Areas to which these disciplines have been applied include business (e.g., character recognition), medicine (diagnosis, abnormality detection), automation (robot vision and automatic inspection), military intelligence, communications (data compression, speech recognition), and many others. This paper presents a very brief survey of recent developments in basic pattern recognition techniques.
Keywords :
Classification; cluster analysis; decision-theoretic recognition; feature extraction; feature selection; pattern recognition; syntactic recognition; Business communication; Character recognition; Inspection; Intelligent robots; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical robotics; Pattern recognition; Research and development; Robot vision systems; Robotics and automation; Classification; cluster analysis; decision-theoretic recognition; feature extraction; feature selection; pattern recognition; syntactic recognition;