(Information Science Guru) Pattern Recognition
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Recognizing patterns based on input and producing output
- Humans do it unconsciously (probably most artificial intelligence systems do too)
- In a sense, pattern recognition can be said to encompass all aspects of human life
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Determining which class a given input belongs to from a predefined set of classes
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Is it correct to say that class classification is synonymous with pattern recognition?
- Is pattern recognition considered an application field of machine learning?
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(From Professor Uchida’s slides)
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The difficulty (=interest) of pattern recognition
- Involves aspects of human cognition and philosophy
- What does “similarity” mean?
- What should we focus on?
- Class indeterminacy (similar to the Symbol Placement Problem)
- Curse of Dimensionality