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Dedicated to the memory of the late Professor King Sun Fu (1930-1985), the handbook series, with first edition (1993), second edition (1999) and third edition (2005), provides a comprehensive, concise and balanced coverage of the progress and achievements in the field of pattern recognition and computer vision in the last twenty years. This is a...

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