Statistical pattern recognition refers to the use of statistics to learn from examples. It means to collect observations, study and digest them in order to infer general rules or concepts that can be applied to new, unseen observations. How should this be done in an automatic way? What tools are needed? Previous discussions on prior…
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Statistical pattern recognition
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Prior knowledge
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We see an object and we know what it is: a tree, a table, a pen. There is no doubt. Only in a new, unfamiliar environment like a museum, a scientific lab, an industrial workshop, we may see unknown objects and an explanation is need. But in daily life we recognize the objects, even if we…