February 1995 / State Of The Art

Piecing Together Puzzles	Using pattern recognition to glean meaning from masses of data is becoming faster and more accurate thanks to sophisticated algorithms and powerful, but economical, processors - by Alan Joch, Senior Editor
Face Value How Photobook Recognizes Faces Eight eigenfaces Composite of the average face Facial-recognition search Uncompressed JPEG-Compressed A Neural Net that Knows Faces	Faster and more sophisticated algorithms are helping computerized facial-recognition systems come of age - by Edmund X. Dejesus
Eyes, Ears, & Brains On A Chip The SHARC Architecture Inside the Ni1000	DSPs and neural networks power faster image, speech, and character-recognition engines - by Mark Clarkson
Mining Statistics Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Iris Classes Nearest Neighbor Classifier	Statistical-pattern recognition could be the underpinning for tomorrow's smarter voice processors and machine-vision systems - by John L. Cuadrado

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