If we really understand something, we are able to express it in words, at least for ourselves. Having the right words available may be essential. Language plays a basic role in thinking, If something new is found, if a new idea pops up the right word can crystallize it in language. By this, it can…
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Pattern recognition and the art of naming
Monday, July 8th, 2013 at
23:15
Platonic thinking
Monday, April 22nd, 2013 at
00:00
Everybody tries to understand his world. Some people, the scientists, try to do this in a systematic way. They report their findings in books, journals and at conferences. The starting student may think that there is a single way of doing this, of building knowledge and describing progress. He will be confused on what he…
Pattern recognition at eastern
Sunday, April 7th, 2013 at
12:54
We were invited to watch the search for eastern eggs at the preschool of our grandson Pim. He is about two-and-a-halve, does not speak so much, but is mainly an observer. Internally he might even be a philosopher, who knows? We had to take the early train and rent some bicycles to arrive in time…
Non-metric dissimilarities are all around
Monday, March 4th, 2013 at
00:00
A big advantage of the representation of objects by a dissimilarity space over the use of kernels is that it has no problems with the usage of non-Euclidean dissimilarity measures. More specifically, it can handle non-metric measures as well. Here, we will show common examples that such dissimilarities arise easily, both, in daily life as…
Metric learning, a problem in consciousness
Monday, February 25th, 2013 at
00:00
Pattern recognition studies the tools to learn from examples what is yet unknown. Distances (or dissimilarities) are a primary notion for learning in pattern recognition. What to do if no proper distance measure is known? Can it be learnt? On what basis? This seems to be a consciousness problem. There are three sources of scientific…
Art, science and technology
Thursday, September 6th, 2012 at
00:00
Pattern recognition may be considered both as a science and an art and every scientist in this field possesses such an art as well. It is better explained here. The scientist can read, recognize people, understand speech and learn new patterns every day. Moreover, in his work as a scientist in pattern recognition he uses…
The art and science of pattern recognition
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012 at
00:00
In 1978 Godfried Toussaint announced his intention to write a book on “the art and science of pattern recognition” (the final words of a paper on the use of context in pattern recognition [1]). In 1983 George Nagy used the same expression, but now in an ironic way when he criticized the way pattern recognition…
What is pattern recognition?
Monday, September 3rd, 2012 at
00:00
For a very small child a walk into the world is a walk into the wild: all is new and exciting. Every object, every sound, every shape provides a new experience. Consequently, he doesn’t know how to interpret what is happening. He doesn’t know how to hold an item or how to walk. That is…
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