electrical and optical

"Thus researchers from all walks of pattern recognition should get something out of this book."

I agree.

I think the authors provide a nice balance between theory and practice. On one hand, the algorithms presented can and are meant to be implemented for testing. On the other hand, the authors provide a fairly sound mathematical treatment of areas such as Markov Models, clustering, and template matching. Most important, the authors do not focus attention only on one type of problem (e.g. character recognition). Thus researchers from all walks of pattern recognition should get something out of this book.

Two big thumbs up!

I am working on a project and I am constantly getting inspired from this book. This book seems to have the practical power of Rogers(Computer Graphics) writting while keeping the theoretical dichipline. So you can safetly combine algorithms and be sure that you are walking on a correct path, simply buy this book all of you who are fed up with a book fool of formulas and "chatting" without practise it will probably save you from a lot of searching. Thats the end of my review. I think I said enough good things and a little criticism on this book.