模式理论，从表示到推导。在模式识别中知识的表示通常是一个非常难的问题，这本书详细地描述了如何表达图像中的各个模式，并用得到的模式表达进行模式识别的推导。-This book is to be an accessible book on patterns, their representation, and inference. There

are a small number of ideas and techniques that, when mastered, make the subject more

accessible. This book has arisen from ten years of a research program which the authors

have embarked upon, building on the more abstract developments of metric pattern theory

developed by one of the authors during the 1970s and 1980s. The material has been taught

over multiple semesters as part of a second year graduate-level course in pattern theory,

essentially an introduction for students interested in the representation of patterns which are

observed in the natural world. The course has attracted students studying biomedical engineering,

computer science, electrical engineering, and applied mathematics interested in speech

recognition and computational linguistics, as well as areas of image analysis, and computer

vision.