Frontiers of Pattern Recognition

Contributors

Preface

Some Techniques for Recognizing Structures in Pictures

A Survey of Results in Grammatical Inference

The Selection of Effective Attributes for Deciding Between Hypotheses Using Linear Discriminant Functions

Boundary Detection of Radiographic Images by a Threshold Method

A Hierarchy of Probability Density Function Estimates

On Embedding Heuristics and Including Complexity Constraints into Convergent Learning Algorithms

On Syntactic Pattern Recognition and Stochastic Languages

Computer Identification of Bacteria by Colony Morphology

On Linguistic, Statistical and Mixed Models for Pattern Recognition

Pattern Cognition and the Organization of Information

Experiments with an On-Line Picture Language

A Basic Study on Human Face Recognition

Cluster Analysis

Adaptive Pattern Recognition: A State-Variable Approach

On the Computation of Shape

A "Crisis" in the Theory of Pattern Recognition

Heuristic Use of Image Processing Technique for Theoretical Studies of Automata

Relationship Between Organizing Capability and Information Utilized for System Organization

A Priori Problem Knowledge and Training Samples

Structural Pattern Recognition: Primitives and Juxtaposition Relations

Pattern Recognition and Group Theory

Bounds on the Complexity of Grammars

Picture Graphs, Grammars, and Parsing

Sample Set Condensation for a Condensed Nearest Neighbor Decision Rule for Pattern Recognition

Learning Algorithms of Pattern Recognition in Non-Stationary Conditions

Idealized Pattern Recognition

Pattern Recognition as Information Compression

Scene Understanding Systems

Least-Mean-Square Approach to Pattern Classification

Closing Remarks

Author Index

Subject Index