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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What is the core business of pattern recognition?
Friday, September 7th, 2012 at
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Around 2000 Fabio Roli raised the question “what is the core business of pattern recognition?”. Given very related areas like machine learning, statistical decision theory and neural networks it became natural, and even urgent to wonder about the identity of the field of pattern recognition. These fields are all dealing with learning from examples, with…