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Author Schaffer, Daniel, 1950-

Title TWAS at 20 : a history of the Third World Academy of Sciences / Daniel Schaffer
Published Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 165 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents First steps -- Standing tall -- Stepping out -- Moving ahead -- Ten years plus -- New leadership -- Global affairs -- China and beyond -- Postscript -- Timeline
Summary The book provides an up-to-date and authoritative treatment of pattern recognition and computer vision, with chapters written by leaders in the field. On the basic methods in pattern recognition and computer vision, topics range from statistical pattern recognition to array grammars to projective geometry to skeletonization, and shape and texture measures. Recognition applications include character recognition and document analysis, detection of digital mammograms, remote sensing image fusion, and analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging data, etc. There are six chapters on current activities in human identification. Other topics include moving object tracking, performance evaluation, content-based video analysis, musical style recognition, number plate recognition, etc
Notes English
Subject Third World Academy of Sciences.
SUBJECT Third World Academy of Sciences fast
Third World Academy Of Sciences. larpcal
Subject Science -- Societies, etc. -- International cooperation
Science -- Developing countries -- Societies, etc
Technology -- Developing countries -- Societies, etc
SCIENCE -- General.
Science -- Societies, etc.
Technology -- Societies, etc.
Ciência.
Developing countries
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789812775306
9812775307
9786611928049
6611928049
Other Titles TWAS at twenty