1. Introduction. Illustrated manuscripts may be analysed in terms of both their texts and their illustrations. While statistical techniques have long been applied to the textual analysis of manuscripts, e.g., Lebart and Salem (1994), no corresponding pictorial analysis can be found in the art history literature. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that the field can benefit from statistical...

A major limitation of conventional microelectronics is the inability to perform pattern recognition at levels comparable with human perception. Software-based solutions of pattern recognition suffer from the delays required for transferring data between a memory and processor while hardware based solutions lack sufficient adaptability to continuously classify new patterns. Recently a new nanosc...