quote:Original post by justo books that you still have and pull off your shelf to read about something....maybe a mix of theory and practical examples?

While some people don''t like it, I like and still utilise "C++ Neural Networks & Fuzzy Logic" as a reference and "how-to" for many ANN tasks. It comes with code and data so it''s fairly good for learning, although there are certainly other good books out there that suit this purpose as well.

Timkin

quote:Original post by justo
...are there any good books you reccomend? books that you still have and pull off your shelf to read about something....maybe a mix of theory and practical examples?

For the image processing side of this process, I'd suggest either "Algorithms for Image Processing and Computer Vision", by Parker, or "Digital Image Processing", by Gonzalez and Woods. Parker's book includes more OCR-specific information.

Assuming that you are training some sort of learning system for the classification, I'd suggest "Neural Networks for Statistical Modeling", by Smith for a purely neural approach, "Advanced Methods in Neural Computing", by Wasserman for alternative neural architectures, or one of "Computer Systems That Learn", by Weiss and Kulikowski, "Predictive Data Mining", by Weiss and Indurkhya, or "Solving Data Mining Problems through Pattern Recognition", by Kennedy, Lee, Reed, Van Roy and Lippmann for a broader mixture of learning algorithms.

All of these titles, and others, are described (including ISBNs) in Will's Technical Book List, which can be found at http://will.dwinnell.com/will/Wills%20Technical%20Book%20List%20Mar-2002.doc

Good luck!
Predictor
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[edited by - Predictor on August 26, 2003 8:40:41 AM]

For a good coverage of classification techniques, you might also want to try: "Pattern Classification", by Duda & Hart. For a good recent text on using ANNs for pattern recognition/classification, check out: "Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition" by C.M. Bishop.(Clarendon Press, 1995)

Cheers,

Timkin

quote:Original post by Timkin
For a good coverage of classification techniques, you might also want to try: "Pattern Classification", by Duda & Hart.

There is a second edition of this book, co-authored by Duda, Hart and Stork. For the ISBN and a review, see:

http://www.pcai.com/Paid/Issues/AC14563/CD4231A/16.2_PA/PCAI-16.2-Paid-pg.40-Bookzone.htm