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IJCNN
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Large developing axonal arbors using a distributed and locally-reprogrammable address-event receiver
Abstract— We have designed a distributed and locally reprogrammable address event receiver. Incoming address-events are monitored simultaneously by all synapses, allowing for arb...
Simeon A. Bamford, Alan F. Murray, David J. Willsh...
IJCNN
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Shedding weights: More with less
—Traditional connectionist classification models place an emphasis on learned synaptic weights. Based on neurobiological evidence, a new approach is developed and experimentally ...
Tsvi Achler, Cyrus Omar, Eyal Amir
IJCNN
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A pragmatic path toward endowing virtually-embodied AIs with human-level linguistic capability
— Current work is described wherein simplified versions of the Novamente Cognition Engine (NCE) are being used to control virtual agents in virtual worlds such as game engines an...
Ben Goertzel
IJCNN
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Shape of error surfaces in SpikeProp
Masaru Fujita, Haruhiko Takase, Hidehiko Kita, Ter...
IJCNN
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Fully complex-valued radial basis function networks for orthogonal least squares regression
— We consider a fully complex-valued radial basis function (RBF) network for regression application. The locally regularised orthogonal least squares (LROLS) algorithm with the D...
Sheng Chen, Xia Hong, Chris J. Harris
IJCNN
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Unsupervised learning of dependencies between local luminance and contrast in natural images
Abstract— Separate processing of local luminance and contrast in biological visual systems has been argued to be due to the independence of these two properties in natural image ...
Jussi T. Lindgren, Jarmo Hurri, Aapo Hyvärine...
IJCNN
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A neural network approach to ordinal regression
— Ordinal regression is an important type of learning, which has properties of both classification and regression. Here we describe an effective approach to adapt a traditional ...
Jianlin Cheng, Zheng Wang, Gianluca Pollastri
IJCNN
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Product design model for impact toughness estimation in steel plate manufacturing
— The purpose of this study was to develop a product design model for impact toughness estimation of low-alloy steel plates. Based on these estimates, the rejection probability o...
Satu Tamminen, Ilmari Juutilainen, Juha Rönin...
IJCNN
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Adaptive curiosity for emotions detection in speech
— Exploratory activities seem to be crucial for our cognitive development. According to psychologists, exploration is an intrinsically rewarding behaviour. The developmental robo...
Alexis Bondu, Vincent Lemaire
IJCNN
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A comparison of architectural varieties in Radial Basis Function Neural Networks
— Representation of knowledge within a neural model is an active field of research involved with the development of alternative structures, training algorithms, learning modes an...
Mehmet Önder Efe, Cosku Kasnakoglu