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<CENTER><P><IMG SRC="award.gif" ALT="Award graphic" HEIGHT=109 WIDTH=76 ALIGN=LEFT><FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><FONT SIZE=+3>Best
Paper Award<BR>
</FONT><FONT SIZE=+1>International Association for Pattern Recognition
Workshop on<BR>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#000000">Malvern, Pennsylvania, October 1996</FONT></P>
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<CENTER><P><I><FONT COLOR="#800040">New!</FONT></I><FONT COLOR="#00FF00">
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<FONT SIZE=+2>"A Multi-Layer Corroboration-Based Check Reader"</FONT></P></CENTER>
<CENTER><P>Houle, Aragon, Smith, Shridhar and Kimura</P></CENTER>
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<H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Recognition Technology and Pattern Analysis</H1>
<P>I created this site for the use of the pattern recognition community,
in hopes that we can learn from each other, share research and data, and
find opportunities to consult or collaborate on projects. Compared to the
usual other "lists of links" sites, this one has information
that I've personally verified, using the judgement of several years of
experience building real-world pattern recognition systems. </P>
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This is a text-only, condensed version of the information on the other
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<TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" HEIGHT=40><FONT SIZE=+1><A HREF="http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~dave/patvend.html">Commercial
Recognition Sources</A></FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="50%" VALIGN="MIDDLE" COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT=40>Major players in OCR/ICR,
Speech Recognition, Data Mining. In an industry beset by hype, these vendors
actually know their stuff. I have direct knowledge of those listed here
and have used the products of most of them. </TD>
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<TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" HEIGHT=40><FONT SIZE=+1><A HREF="http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~dave/patgrps.html">Associations
and Interest Groups</A></FONT> </TD>
<TD WIDTH="34%" VALIGN="MIDDLE" COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT=40>Informal interest groups
(currently all in the Bay Area), and the major professional associations
related to our field.
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<TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" HEIGHT=40><FONT SIZE=+1><A HREF="http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~dave/patread.html">Recommended
Reading</A></FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="34%" VALIGN="MIDDLE" COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT=40>Descriptions/reviews
of books I've found especially useful in understanding pattern recognition
principles, image and document analysis, neural nets and the like. Beef
up your bookshelf.
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<TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" HEIGHT=40><FONT SIZE=+1><A HREF="http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~dave/patpubs.html">Research
Publications</A></FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="34%" VALIGN="MIDDLE" COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT=40>Papers from my group
(abstracts & some full papers on-line), and links to major compendia
of published research in pattern recognition.</TD>
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OCR / ICR / Pattern Analysis Resources on the Net</A></FONT></TD>
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