Semantic-Syntactic Approach to Pattern Analysis and Image Processing

Many mathematical methods have been proposed for solving pattern analysis and image processing problems. They can be grouped into two major approaches, decision-theoretic or statistical approach and structural or syntactic approach. From the point of view of pattern representation and description, we can discuss pattern analysis and image processing in terms of a unified semantic-syntactic approach. This paper will describe the basic formulation of this approach and discuss a major result in syntax-semantics tradeoff. Recognition methods based on this proposed approach and their implementation will also be discussed.