Pattern Recognition: Introduction, Features, Classifiers and Principles (De Gruyter Textbook)

✍ Scribed by Jürgen Beyerer, Raphael Hagmanns, Daniel Stadler

• Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 354
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book offers a thorough introduction to Pattern Recognition aimed at master and advanced bachelor students of engineering and the natural sciences. Besides classification - the heart of Pattern Recognition - special emphasis is put on features: their typology, their properties and their systematic construction. Additionally, general principles that govern Pattern Recognition are illustrated and explained in a comprehensible way. Rather than presenting a complete overview over the rapidly evolving field, the book clarifies the concepts so that the reader can easily understand the underlying ideas and the rationale behind the methods. For this purpose, the mathematical treatment of Pattern Recognition is pushed so far that the mechanisms of action become clear and visible, but not farther. Therefore, not all derivations are driven into the last mathematical detail, as a mathematician would expect it. Ideas of proofs are presented instead of complete proofs. From the authors’ point of view, this concept allows to teach the essential ideas of Pattern Recognition with sufficient depth within a relatively lean book.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Preface of 2nd edition
Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Notation
Introduction
1 Fundamentals and definitions
2 Features
3 Bayesian decision theory
4 Parameter estimation
5 Parameter free methods
6 General considerations
7 Special classifiers
8 Classification with nominal features
9 Classifier-independent concepts
A Solutions to the exercises
B A primer on Lie theory
C Random processes
Bibliography
Glossary
Index