The computer recognition systems are nowadays one of the most promising directions in artificial intelligence. This book is the most comprehensive study of this field. It contains a collection of 86 carefully selected articles contributed by experts of pattern recognition. It reports on current research with respect to both methodology and applications. In particular, it includes the following sections:

• Biometrics
• Data Stream Classification and Big Data Analytics 
• Features, learning, and classifiers
• Image processing and computer vision
• Medical applications
• Miscellaneous applications
• Pattern recognition and image processing in robotics 
• Speech and word recognition

This book is a great reference tool for scientists who deal with the problems of designing computer pattern recognition systems. Its target readers can be the as well researchers as students of computer science, artificial intelligence or robotics.