This book demonstrates the efficiency of the C++ programming language in the realm of pattern recognition and pattern analysis. For this 4th edition, new features of the C++ language were integrated and their relevance for image and speech processing is discussed.
Dietrich Paulus is a professor in computational visualistics at University Koblenz-Landau. Since over a decade he teaches image processing and programming languages.
Joachim Hornegger is working for Siemens Medical Solutions, Inc. and the director of medical image processing. He is also a lecturer at the University of Mannheim teaching courses on medical image processing, discrete tomography, and 3D computer vision.