Pattern Recognition Pattern Recognition Laboratory

A typical human ability is the recognition of patterns in the world around us. It constitutes the basis of each natural science: the laws of physics, the description of species in biology, or the analysis of human behavior; they are all based on seeing patterns. Also in daily life pattern recognition plays an important role: reading texts, identifying people, retrieving objects, or finding the way in a city. Once patterns are established, learned from some examples or from a teacher, we are able to classify new objects or phenomena into a class of known patterns. The study of automatic pattern recognition has two sides, one purely fundamentally scientific and one applied.