KEY BENEFIT: In recent years, pattern recognition, the classification of objects into categories, has become an important part of image processing applications where the input data is an image, as in x-rays and satellite pictures. This book is a complete introduction to pattern recognition and its increasing role in image processing, featuring worked-out problems based on real pattern recognition systems.

KEY TOPICS: Covers image processing, the hottest topic in signal processing; probability; statistical decision making; nonparametric decision making; clustering; and the processing of waveforms and images.