Pattern Recognition in Nanoscience, Environmental Engineering and Archeology

This book presents new and important research on pattern recognition - the research area that studies the operation and design of systems that recognize patterns in data. It encloses sub-disciplines like discriminate analysis, feature extraction, error estimation, cluster analysis (together sometimes called statistical pattern recognition), grammatical inference and parsing (sometimes called syntactical pattern recognition). Important application areas are image analysis, character recognition, speech analysis, man and machine diagnostics, person identification and industrial inspection.