1. Fusion of Segmentation Strategies for Off-Line Cursive Handwriting Recognition -- 2. Elastic Matching Techniques for Handwritten Character Recognition -- 3. State of the Art in Off-Line Signature Verification -- 4. An Automatic Off-Line Signature Verification and Forgery Detection System -- 5. Introduction to Speech Recognition -- 6. Seeking Patterns in the Forensic Analysis of Handwriting and Speech -- 7. Image Pattern Recognition-Based Morphological Structure and Applications -- 8. Robust Face Recognition Technique for a Real-Time Embedded Face Recognition System -- 9. Occlusion Sequence Mining for Activity Discovery from Surveillance Videos -- 10. Human Detection in Static Images -- 11. A Brain-Inspired Visual Pattern Recognition Architecture and Its Applications -- 12. Significance of Logic Synthesis in FPGA-Based Design of Image and Signal Processing Systems -- 13. A Novel Support Vector Machine with Class-Dependent Features for Biomedical Data -- 14. A Unified Approach to Support Vector Machines -- 15. Cluster Ensemble and Multi-Objective Clustering Methods -- 16. Implementing Negative Correlation Learning in Evolutionary Ensembles with Suitable Speciation Techniques -- 17. A Recurrent Probabilistic Neural Network for EMG Pattern Recognition -- Compilation of References -- About the Contributors -- Index.