Pattern Classification: A Unified View of Statistical and Neural Approaches

PATTERN CLASSIFICATION

a unified view of statistical and neural approaches

The product of years of research and practical experience in pattern classification, this book offers a theory-based engineering perspective on neural networks and statistical pattern classification. Pattern Classification sheds new light on the relationship between seemingly unrelated approaches to pattern recognition, including statistical methods, polynomial regression, multilayer perceptron, and radial basis functions. Important topics such as feature selection, reject criteria, classifier performance measurement, and classifier combinations are fully covered, as well as material on techniques that, until now, would have required an extensive literature search to locate. A full program of illustrations, graphs, and examples helps make the operations and general properties of different classification approaches intuitively understandable.

Offering a lucid presentation of complex applications and their algorithms, Pattern Classification is an invaluable resource for researchers, engineers, and graduate students in this rapidly developing field.

Based on Schurmann's years of practical experience in the area of character recognition and document analysis, this book offers a unifying perspective of neural networks and statistical pattern classification from a theoretically-based engineering point of view. Using graphs and examples, it sheds light on the relation between seemingly different approaches to pattern recognition.

PATTERN CLASSIFICATION

a unified view of statistical and neural approaches

The product of years of research and practical experience in pattern classification, this book offers a theory-based engineering perspective on neural networks and statistical pattern classification. Pattern Classification sheds new light on the relationship between seemingly unrelated approaches to pattern recognition, including statistical methods, polynomial regression, multilayer perceptron, and radial basis functions. Important topics such as feature selection, reject criteria, classifier performance measurement, and classifier combinations are fully covered, as well as material on techniques that, until now, would have required an extensive literature search to locate. A full program of illustrations, graphs, and examples helps make the operations and general properties of different classification approaches intuitively understandable.

Offering a lucid presentation of complex applications and their algorithms, Pattern Classification is an invaluable resource for researchers, engineers, and graduate students in this rapidly developing field.

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Offers a theory-based engineering perspective on neural networks and statistical pattern classification. On the way, sheds light on the relationship between apparently unrelated approaches to pattern recognition, including statistical methods, polynomial regression, multilayer perceptron, and radial basis functions. Also discusses such topics as feature selection, reject criteria, classifier performance measurement, and classifier combinations. Most of the examples and applications relate to character recognition. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

JÜRGEN SCHÜRMANN is head of the Pattern Understanding Group at the Daimler-Benz Research Center in Ulm, Germany, and teaches at the Technical University of Darmstadt.