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.

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)

• 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.