chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Digital Innovation and Taxonomy's Finest Hour -- chapter 3 Natural Object Categorization: Man versus Machine -- chapter 4 Neural Networks in Brief -- chapter 5 Morphometrics and Computed Homology: An Old Theme Revisited -- chapter 6 The Automated Identification of Taxa: Concepts and Applications -- chapter 7 DAISY: A Practical Computer-Based Tool for Semi-Automated Species Identification -- chapter 8 Automated Extraction and Analysis of Morphological Features for Species Identification -- chapter 9 Introducing SPIDA-Web: Wavelets, Neural Networks and Internet Accessibility in an Image-Based Automated Identification System -- chapter 10 Automated Tools for the Identification of Taxa from Morphological Data: Face Recognition in Wasps -- chapter 11 Pattern Recognition for Ecological Science and Environmental Monitoring: An Initial Report -- chapter 12 Plant Identification from Characters and Measurements Using Artificial Neural Networks -- chapter 13 Spot the Penguin: Can Reliable Taxonomic Identifications Be Made Using Isolated Foot Bones? -- chapter 14 A New Semi-Automatic Morphometric Protocol for Conodonts and a Preliminary Taxonomic Application -- chapter 15 Decision Trees: A Machine-Learning Method for Characterizing Morphological Patterns Resulting from Ecological Adaptation -- chapter 16 Data Integration and Multifactorial Analyses: The Yeasts and the BioloMICS Software as a Case Study -- chapter 17 Automatic Measurement of Honeybee Wings -- chapter 18 Good Performers Know Their Audience! Identification and Characterization of Pitch Contours in Infant- and Foreigner-Directed Speech.