A pattern recognition system used for industrial inspection has to be highly reliable and fast. The reliability is essential for reducing the cost caused by incorrect decisions, while speed is necessary for real–time operation. In this paper we address the problem of inspecting optical media like Compact Disks and Digital Versatile Disks. Here, defective disks have to be identified during produ...

Fourier descriptors are used for representing the shapes as well as extracting the features of the characters. It has the advantage of being invariant to the affine transforms. It possesses the ability to reconstruct the original shape. Moreover, all the descriptors are not required to describe the character. Hence huge reduction in feature size is possible. K-nearest neighbor classifier is use...

The edited k-nearest neighbor consists of the application of the k-nearest neighbor classifier with an edited training set, in order to reduce the classification error rate. This edited training set is a subset of the complete training set in which some of the training patterns are excluded. In recent works, genetic algorithms have been successfully applied to generate edited sets. In this pape...

This paper explores the use of ALOS (Advanced Land Observing Satellite) PALSARL-band (Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar) and RADARSAT-2 C-band data for land-cover classification in a tropical moist region. Transformed divergence was used to identify potential textural images which were calculated with the gray-level co-occurrence matrix method. The standard deviation of selected...