The course Pattern Recognition is about the classification and analysis of patterns. There are numerous applications of pattern recognition techniques, such as industrial inspection (e.g. quality control of materials), biomedical inspection (e.g. chromosome analysis), remote sensing (earth observation), astronomy (galaxy research), and security (e.g. fingerprint and handwriting analysis). Because more and more measured data is generated, the need for automatic analysis also increases. The seminar will cover two main topics: basic statistical pattern recognition, and pattern recognition in the application domain biometrics.

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