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We consider the process we call Pattern Recognition. By this we mean the extraction of the significant features of data from a background of irrelevant detail. What we are interested in is simulating this process on digital computers. We give examples on three levels of complexity corresponding to the subjects of the other three speakers here today. We examine in detail the problem on the second level, visual recognition of simple shapes.
Oliver G. Selfridge (1955) studied this question.