This textbook covers both fundamentals and advanced topics in computer-based recognition of objects in scenes. It is intended to be both a text and a reference. Almost every chapter has a “Fundamentals” section which is pedagogically structured as a textbook, and a “Topics” section which includes extensive references...
This book exclusively surveys the active on-going research of the current maturity of fuzzy logic over the last four decades. Many world leaders of fuzzy logic have enthusiastically contributed their best research results into five theoretical, philosophical and fundamental sub areas and nine distinctive applications, including two PhD...
Mainstream data mining techniques significantly limit the role of human reasoning and insight. Likewise, in data visualization, the role of computational analysis is relatively small. The power demonstrated individually by these approaches to knowledge discovery suggests that somehow uniting the two could lead to increased efficiency and more...
Cryptography has made a peculiar journey to become a modern science. It had long been
associated with the military and with magic. The rst published work in the eld was
Steganographia, by an alchemist named Trithemius. Although written earlier, the book was
published in 1606. Cryptography has continued this connection with the arcane...
Large volumes of data and complex problems inspire research in computing and data, text, and web
mining. However, analyzing data is not sufficient, as it has to be presented visually with analytical capabilities,
i.e., a chart/diagram/image illustration that enables humans to perceive, relate, and conclude
in the knowledge discovery...
We are all familiar with the time-honored idea of a Virtual Machine that is neutral
with respect to computer architecture and can be used to execute a high-level
language, after its translation to the VM byte-code. This approach can be found in
several successful mono-language systems, that support popular languages such as
Java or...
The definitive survey of computational intelligence from luminaries in the field
Computational intelligence is a fast-moving, multidisciplinary field - the nexus of diverse technical interest areas that include neural networks, fuzzy logic, and evolutionary computation. Keeping up with computational intelligence means understanding...
Computability has played a crucial role in mathematics and computer science
– leading to the discovery, understanding and classification of decidable/
undecidable problems, paving the way to the modern computer era
and affecting deeply our view of the world. Recent new paradigms of computation,
based on biological and physical...
These Lecture Notes are based on a series of lectures I gave at the Linkoping University
Department of Electrical Engineering in 1988. In these lectures 1 tried to give an overview
of the theory of representation of compact groups and some applications in the fields of
image science and pattern recognition.
Before the invention of the Internet and the creation of the Web, the vast majority of human
conversations were in spoken form, with the only notable, but extremely limited, exception being
epistolary exchanges. Some important spoken conversations, such as criminal trials and political
debates (e.g., Hansard, the transcripts of...
PAKDD has been recognized as a major international conference in the areas of
data mining (DM) and knowledge discovery in databases (KDD). It provides an
international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new
ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all
KDD-related areas...
When we rst started working on the problem of making the kernel machine
approach applicable to the classi cation of graphs a couple of years ago,
our e orts were mainly driven by the fact that kernel methods had led to
impressive performance results on many data sets. It didn't take us long to
appreciate the sheer elegance of how...
