'Pattern Theory' provides a comprehensice & accessible overview of the modern challenges in signal, data & pattern analysis in speech recognition, computational linguistics, image analysis & computer vision. Aimed at graduate students the text includes numerous exercises & an extensive bibliography.
"A dazzling tour de force on patterns.
A self-contained and coherent account of probabilistic techniques, covering: distance measures, kernel rules, nearest neighbour rules, Vapnik-Chervonenkis theory, parametric classification, and feature extraction.
The computational methods of bioinformatics are being used more and more to process the large volume of current biological data.
In challenging the prevailing paradigm for understanding how the human mind works, Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition is certain to stimulate fruitful debate.
Why can humans alone invent? In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autism is as crucial to our creative and cultural history as the mastery of fire.
The aim of pattern theory is to create mathematical knowledge representations of complex systems, analyse the mathematical properties of the resulting regular structures, and to apply them to practically occuring...
Topics and features: Introduces the formal framework for Markov models, describing hidden Markov models and Markov chain models, also known as n-gram models Covers the robust handling of probability quantities, which are omnipresent when ...
The same pattern found in a fantastical drawing of lizards by M. C. Escher is echoed in a Fijian basket lid and an Egyptian wall mosaic." — Publishers Weekly "This extremely useful guide to classifying plane pattern designs … is ...
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