''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 Robert Steven Ledley (June 28, 1926 – July 24, 2012), professor of physiology and biophysics and professor of radiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, pioneered the use of electronic digital computers in biology and medicine. In ...

, who was succeeded from 2009 until 2016 by Ching Suen of Concordia University. Since 2016 the current editor-in-chief is

Edwin Hancock Edwin Hancock (FREng) (born June 1956) is a British computer scientist at the University of York specialising in computer vision and pattern recognition. Education Edwin Hancock graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics in 1977, a ...

of the University of York. The journal publishes papers in the general area of

pattern recognition Pattern recognition is the automated recognition of patterns and regularities in data. It has applications in statistical data analysis, signal processing, image analysis, information retrieval, bioinformatics, data compression, computer graphics ...

, including applications in the areas of image processing, computer vision,

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

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

and biomedical 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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