Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition
Subtitle: First International Workshop, MLDM'99, Leipzig, Germany, September 16-18, 1999, Proceedings (Lecture ... / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)
Contributors: Petra Perner (Editor); Maria Petrou (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: October 18, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9783540665991
Subjects: Data capture & analysis; Machine Learning; Pattern recognition; Image processing; Congresses; Pattern perception; Database Engineering; Computers; Computers - General Information; General; Computer Books: General; Database Management - General; Data mining; Artificial Intelligence - General; Computer Graphics - General; Computers / Artificial Intelligence; Intelligent Data Analysis
Description: The field of machine learning and data mining in connection with pattern recognition enjoys growing popularity and attracts many researchers. Automatic pattern recognition systems have proven successful in many applications. The wide use of these systems depends on their ability to adapt to changing environmental conditions and to deal with new objects. This requires learning capabilities on the parts of these systems. The exceptional attraction of learning in pattern recognition lies in the specific data themselves and the different stages at which they get processed in a pattern recognition system. This results a specific branch within the field of machine learning. At the workshop, were presented machine learning approaches for image pre-processing, image segmentation, recognition and interpretation. Machine learning systems were shown on applications such as document analysis and medical image analysis. Many databases are developed that contain multimedia sources such as images, measurement protocols, and text documents. Such systems should be able to retrieve these sources by content. That requires specific retrieval and indexing strategies for images and signals. Higher quality database contents can be achieved if it were possible to mine these databases for their underlying information. Such mining techniques have to consider the specific characteristic of the image sources. The field of mining multimedia databases is just starting out. We hope that our workshop can attract many other researchers to this subject.