Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1. Is Pattern Recognition Important?
Pattern recognition is the scientific discipline whose goal is the classification of objects into a number of categories or classes. Depending on the application, these objects can be images or signal waveforms or any type of measurements that need to be classified. We will refer to these objects using the generic term patterns. Pattern recognition has a long history, but before the 1960s it was mostly the output of theoretical research in the area of statistics. As with everything else, the advent of computers increased the demand for practical applications of pattern recognition, which in turn set new demands for further theoretical developments. As our society evolves from the ...
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