ABSTRACT
In a very general sense, pattern recognition is often considered to be the essence of intelligence. For example, an often heard argument for the ability of human chess masters to beat state-of-the-art computer programs is that whereas the latter may be fast in enumerating a large number of moves and consequences, the masters tend to rely on some innate “pattern recognition” abilities based on extensive experience. In a more limited sense, pattern recognition arises in many guises in industrial settings, e.g., robotics in manufacturing, detection of errors in massive software systems, and widely used image analysis applications in medicine and in such things as airport luggage scanners.
