Monday, August 13, 2007
Sunday, August 12, 2007
A Dedicated System for Processing Faces
ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY "Recognizing Faces"
EPPENDORF 2006 WINNER: 2006 Grand Prize Winner
(6 October 2006)Science 314 (5796), 73. [DOI: 10.1126/science.314.5796.73] Summary » Full Text » PDF »
Saturday, August 11, 2007
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A Revolution in Stochastic Optimization
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Friday, August 10, 2007
Decision-support aids context-dependent autoassociative memory models.
Auto-associative Artificial Neural Memory
An auto-associative artificial neural memory is a system which stores mappings of specific input representations to specific output representations. That is to say, a system that "associates" two patterns such that when one is encountered subsequently, the other can be reliably recalled. Kohonen draws an analogy between associative memory and an adaptive filter function [2]. The filter can be viewed as taking an ordered set of input signals, and transforming them into another set of signals---the output of the filter. It is the notion of adaptation, allowing its internal structure to be altered by the transmitted signals, which introduces the concept of memory to the system.
A further refinement in terminology is possible with regard to the associative memory concept, and is ubiquitous in connectionist (neural network) literature in particular. A memory that reproduces its input pattern as output is referred to as autoassociative (i.e. associating patterns with themselves). One that produces output patterns dissimilar to its inputs is termed heteroassociative (i.e. associating patterns with other patterns).
Most associative memory implementations are realized as connectionist networks. Hopfield's collective computation network [1] serves as an excellent example of an autoassociative memory, whereas Rosenblatt's perceptron [3] is often utilized as a heteroassociator. There are many practical problems implementing effective associative memories however, most notably their inefficiency; the tendency is for them to fill up and become unreliable rather quickly. This is a long running open problem for both connectionism and adaptive filter theory---one that Kohonen refers to as the "problem of infinite state memory" [2].
References:
(1) J.J. Hopfield. Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computation abilities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 79:2554-2558, 1982.
(2) T. Kohonen. Self-Organization and Associative Memory. Springer Series In Information Sciences, Vol.8. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Tokyo, 1984.
(3) F. Rosenblatt. Principles of Neurodynamics. Spartan, New York, 1962.
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Hybrid Artificial Neural Networks - Pattern Recognition
Associative cognition systems with hybrid artificial neural networks for adaptive pattern recognition and interactive behavioristic relevance ranking classifiers
- speech recognition; speaker identification
- audio-visual pattern recognition (lip reading)
- optical character recognition of mathematical formulas"
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Towards Integrated Nano-Associative Informatics Solutions
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