Special issue on 'Innovative knowledge based techniques in pattern recognition'

摘要

The setting of the special issue was an ambitious proposal that has been answered enthusiastically by the pattern recognition community. Though initially planned for the attendance to the 16th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, KES 2012, hosted in San Sebastian, Spain in September 2012, it has been opened to a broader community, resulting in many contributions, so that almost two thirds of the accepted papers come from the general call, reflecting the interest of the pattern recognition community towards the topics faced in this special issue. Aim of the special issue is to find new ways to deal with the pattern recognition problem in data domains that require specific representations and operators. The resulting collection of papers reflects a wide diversity of approaches and problem domains, some of them radically innovative, others novel elaborations of already established techniques.