Pattern recognition - Methods and Applications includes contributions from university educators and active research experts. This book is intended to serve as a basic reference on pattern recognition, especially on the topics related to image and graphics processing, shape analysis, text processing, and bioinformatics analysis.

Chapter 1 proposes a review of traditional outlier detection methods and their recent enhancements. Some particular data representations are presented. A case-study based on a synthetic data is proposed in order to demonstrate the potential of a fuzzy...