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The book covers a comprehensive overview of the theory, methods, applications and tools of cognition and recognition. The book is a collection of best selected papers presented in the International Conference on Cognition and Recognition 2016 (ICCR 2016) and helpful for scientists and researchers in the field of image processing, pattern recognition and computer vision for advance studies. Nowadays, researchers are working in interdisciplinary areas and the proceedings of ICCR 2016 plays a major role to accumulate those significant works at one place. The chapters included in the proceedings inculcates both theoretical as well as practical aspects of different areas like nature inspired algorithms, fuzzy systems, data mining, signal processing, image processing, text processing, wireless sensor networks, network security and cellular automata.

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About MIT.- About the book.- About the Editors.- Invited talk.- Messages.- Organizing Committee.- Preface.- Table of Contents.- 36 Chapters.- Author Index.

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Dr. D. S. Guru has obtained his Bachelors, Masters, PhD degrees from University of Mysore and Post-Doctoral work from Michigan State University, USA. Currently, he is Professor and Chairman of Studies in Computer Science, University of Mysore. He has total experience of 20 years in teaching and about 17 years in research. His area of research is image processing and computer vision, and authored more than 80 journal and 250 conference papers. He is Fellow of BOYSCAST, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India for the year 2005. He is also recognized as "Best Ethical Teacher at Higher education" By Rotary Mysore for the year 2011. He has served at different capacities as member in various academic bodies of Universities. He is the Founder President of Maharaja Educational Trust, Mysore.

Dr. Vasudev T. is Professor, in the Department of Computer Applications, Maharaja Institute of Technology, Mysore. He obtained his Bachelor of Science and Post Graduate Diploma in computer programming with two Masters Degrees one in Computer Applications and other one is Computer Science and Technology. He was awarded PhD in Computer Science from University of Mysore. He is having 30 years of experience in academics and his area of research is Digital Image Processing specifically document image processing and authored about 50 research papers.
Dr. Chethan H. K. has obtained his Bachelors, Masters and PhD degrees from University of Mysore. Presently, he is working as Professor in the Department Computer Science and Engineering, Maharaja Institute of Technology, Mysore, Karnataka, India. He has a total experience of 10 years in teaching and about 8 years in research. His area of research is Computer Vision and authored 25 plus research papers. He has served at different capacities as member in various academic bodies of Universities. He is the Joint-Secretary of Maharaja Educational Trust, Mysore.

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