A GENERAL FRAMEWORK FOR KNOWLEDGE-BASED PATTERN RECOGNITION

This paper surveys a long term project, aimed at providing a general methodology for building up and maintaining an expert system oriented to Pattern Recognition problems. The methodology makes use of an integrated set of modules, performing different functions but sharing a common knowledge representation scheme. In particular, a learning module allows to acquire the knowledge automatically from a set of examples and another module performs sophisticated reasoning, on the basis of the available knowledge, during the recognition phase.