For many years, speech has been the most natural and efficient means of information exchange for human beings. With the advancement of technology and the prevalence of computer usage, the design and production of speech recognition systems have been considered by researchers. Among this, lip-reading techniques encountered with many challenges for speech recognition, that one of the challenges b...

A new automatic identification system using photographic images has been designed to recognize fish, plant, and butterfly species from Europe and South America. The automatic classification system integrates multiple image processing tools to extract the geometry, morphology, and texture of the images. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) were used as the pattern recognition method. We tested a da...

ARTIFICIAL neural network (NN) architectures have been recognized for a number of years as a powerful technology for solving real-world image processing problems. The primary purpose of this special issue is to demonstrate some recent success in solving image processing problems and hopefully to motivate other image processing researchers to utilize this technology to solve their real-world pro...

This paper reviews the application of artificial neural networks in medical image preprocessing, in medical image object detection and recognition. Main advantages and drawbacks of artificial neural networks were discussed. By this survey, the paper try to answer what the major strengths and weakness of applying neural networks for medical image processing would be.

We consider application of neural associative memories to chemical image recognition. Chemical image recognition is identification of substance using chemical sensors' data. The primary advantage of associative memories as compared with feed-forward neural networks is highspeed learning. We have made experiments on odour recognition using hetero-associative and modular autoassociative memories....

The paper justifies the necessity to use the hand writer identification using the feed forward neural networks. Identifying the authors of a handwritten sample using automatic image-based processing methods is an interesting pattern recognition problem with direct applicability in the legal and historic documents. Leading a worrisome life among the harder forms of biometrics, the identification...

While recent deep neural network models have given promising performance on object recognition, they rely implicitly on the visual contents of the whole image. In this paper, we train deep neural networks on the foreground (object) and background (context) regions of images respectively. Considering human recognition in the same situations, networks trained on pure background without objects ac...

The image of the license plate is located and segmented by some digital-image processing technologies such as gray-scale processing, gray-scale stretching and filtering, edge detection, morphological processing, Hough transformation etc. According to the characteristics of the license plate, binary matrix of character image sets the fuzzy matrix, and based on the principle of proximity computin...