Markov Models for Pattern Recognition

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gernot A. Fink is Head of the Pattern Recognition Research Group at TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany. His other publications include the Springer title Markov Models for Handwriting Recognition.

• Introduction.- Application Areas.- Part I: Theory.- Foundations of Mathematical Statistics.- Vector Quantization and Mixture Estimation.- Hidden Markov Models.- N-Gram Models.- Part II: Practice.- Computations with Probabilities.- Configuration of Hidden Markov Models.- Robust Parameter Estimation.- Efficient Model Evaluation.- Model Adaptation.- Integrated Search Methods.- Part III: Systems.- Speech Recognition.- Handwriting Recognition.- Analysis of Biological Sequences.

From the book reviews: "The book is highly appropriate for researchers and practitioners dealing with pattern recognition in general and speech, character and handwriting recognition sequences, in particular." (Catalin Stoean, zbMATH 1307.68001, 2015)