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An Introduction to Pattern Recognition Michael Alder HeavenForBooks.com An Introduction to Pattern Recognition by Michael Alder HeavenForBooks.com An Introduction to Pattern Recognition This Edition ©Mike Alder, 2001 Warning: This edition is not to be copied, transmitted excerpted or printed except on terms authorised by the publisher HeavenForBooks.com An Introduction to Pattern Recognition: Statistical, Neural Net and Syntactic methods of getting robots to see and hear. Next: Contents An Introduction to Pattern Recognition: Statistical, Neural Net and Syntactic methods of getting robots to see and hear. Michael D. Alder September 19, 1997 Preface Automation, the use of robots in industry, has not progressed with the speed that many had hoped it would. The forecasts of twenty years ago are looking fairly silly today: the fact that they were produced largely by journalists for the benefit of boardrooms of accountants and MBA's may have something to do with this, but the question of why so little has been accomplished remains. The problems were, of course, harder than they looked to naive optimists. Robots have been built that can move around on wheels or legs, robots of a sort are used on production lines for routine tasks such as welding. But a robot that can clear the table, throw the eggshells in with the garbage and wash up the dishes, instead of washing up the eggshells and throwing the dishes in the garbage, is still some distance off. Pattern Classification, more often called Pattern Recognition, is the primary bottleneck in the task of automation. Robots without sensors have their uses, but they are limited and dangerous. In fact one might plausibly argue that a robot without sensors isn't a real robot at all, whatever the hardware manufacturers may say. But equipping a robot with vi