Preface
PATTERN RECOGNITION ⊂ MACHINE LEARNING ⊂ ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: This relation could give the impression that pattern recognition is only a tiny, very specialized topic. That, however, is misleading. Pattern recognition is a very important field of machine learning and artificial intelligence with its own rich structure and many interesting principles and challenges. For humans, and also for animals, their natural abilities to recognize patterns are essential for navigating the physical world which they perceive with their naturally given senses. Pattern recognition here performs an important abstraction from sensory signals to categories: on th most basic level, it enables the classification of objects into “Eatable” or “Not eatable” ...
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