A15 - Pattern Recognition

Humans have an intrinsic capability to differentiate things from each other. That is to recognize an unknown object and classify the group it belongs by just looking at patterns such as color, shape, size, texture, etc. The amazing thing is, we do this complex task in just a short period of time. Not so long ago, computers arrived in the playing field to at least mimic this impressive feat of humans. Computers' do this by doing an inspection on an object's characteristics repeatedly. But for a computer to be able to do this, humans must teach it first. The question is how?

The first important thing a computer must define is a set of object features or pattern. These features are quantifiable properties such as color and size. These features are then used to create classifiers to conveniently group together objects into a class sharing common properties.

In this blog post, I'll show you how to extract features from objects and finally use them to create a function that will do pattern recognition.