Digital Signal Processing with Examples in MATLAB, 2nd Edition

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Pattern Recognition with Support Vector Machines

12.1  Introduction

Humans possess a natural ability to recognize spatial and temporal patterns in the world around them by processing signals gathered through their senses. A long-standing goal of artificial intelligence is to duplicate this ability with man-made sensors and computing devices. In practice, however, the goal of duplicating human ability often gives way to the goal of optimizing performance for the available sensing and computing resources. Furthermore, humans are notoriously bad at certain types of pattern recognition problems where man-made sensors and computers excel (e.g., detecting subtle changes). Practical pattern recognition problems, where the goal is to optimize ...