Statistical inference of sensor-based measurements is intensively studied in pattern recognition. It is usually based on feature representations of the objects to be recognized. Such representations, however, neglect the object structure. Structural pattern recognition, on the contrary, focusses on encoding the object structure. As general procedures are still weakly developed, such object desc...

An expert system for analysis and recognition of general symbols is introduced. The system uses the structural pattern recognition technique for modeling symbols by a set of straight lines referred to as segments. The system rotates, scales and thins the symbol, then extracts the symbol strokes. Each stroke is transferred into segments (straight lines). The system is shown to be able to map sim...

In this paper we analyse theoretical foundations of syntactic pattern recognition and its relationships with mathematical linguistics, structural pattern recognition, and statistical pattern recognition. We point out that all the above mentioned methods are based on two fundamental operations: the combination of parts into wholes and abstraction. We provide examples of those operations in diffe...

This contribution extends learning vector quantization to the domain of graphs. For this, we first identify graphs with points in some orbifold, then derive a generalized differentiable intrinsic metric, and finally extend the update rule of LVQ for generalized differentiable distance metrics. First experiments indicate that the proposed approach can perform comparable to state-of-the-art metho...

-In this paper, the authors combine two algorithms for application to the recognition of unconstrained isolated handwritten numerals. The first algorithm employs a modified quadratic discriminant function utilizing direction sensitive spatial features of the numeral image. The second algorithm utilizes features derived from the profile of the character in a structural configuration to recognize...

1. Introduction In this paper, I will examine the syntax and semantics of one subtype of Japanese morphological causative in comparison to other kinds of morphological causatives in Japanese and similar causatives in other languages. I will point out that this subtype does not exhibit biclausal properties typical of more familiar Japanese causative predicates. The observations are discussed in ...

Access control is concerned with granting access to sensitive data based on conditions that relate to the past or present, so-called provisions. Expressing requirements from the domain of data protection necessitates extending this notion with conditions that relate to the future. Obligations, in this sense, are concerned with commitments of the involved parties. At the moment of granting acces...

Function-described graphs (FDGs) have been introduced very recently as a representation of an ensemble of attributed relational graphs (ARGs) for structural pattern recognition 1, 2]. In this paper, the relationship between FDGs and Random Graphs 3] is analysed and the synthesis process of FDGs is studied, whereas the matching process between FDGs and ARGs is discussed elsewhere 4]. Two procedu...