''Pattern Recognition'' is a single blind peer-reviewed academic journal published by

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. It was first published in 1968 by

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. The founding editor-in-chief was Robert Ledley, who was succeeded from 2009 until 2016 by Ching Suen of

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. Since 2016 the current editor-in-chief is Edwin Hancock of the

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. The journal publishes papers in the general area of

pattern recognition Pattern recognition is the task of assigning a class to an observation based on patterns extracted from data. While similar, pattern recognition (PR) is not to be confused with pattern machines (PM) which may possess PR capabilities but their p ...

, including applications in the areas of

image processing An image or picture is a visual representation. An image can be two-dimensional, such as a drawing, painting, or photograph, or three-dimensional, such as a carving or sculpture. Images may be displayed through other media, including a pr ...

computer vision Computer vision tasks include methods for image sensor, acquiring, Image processing, processing, Image analysis, analyzing, and understanding digital images, and extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical ...

handwriting recognition Handwriting recognition (HWR), also known as handwritten text recognition (HTR), is the ability of a computer to receive and interpret intelligible handwriting, handwritten input from sources such as paper documents, photographs, touch-screens ...

biometrics Biometrics are body measurements and calculations related to human characteristics and features. Biometric authentication (or realistic authentication) is used in computer science as a form of identification and access control. It is also used t ...

and

biomedical Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine)

signal processing. The journal awards the Pattern Recognition Society Medal to the best paper published in the journal each year. In 2020, the journal had an impact factor of 7.196 and it currently has a

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CiteScore of 13.1. Google Scholar currently lists the journal as ranked 6th in the top 20 publications in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

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* {{Official website, https://www.journals.elsevier.com/pattern-recognition Artificial intelligence journals Academic journals established in 1968 Monthly journals English-language journals