Progress in Neural Networks, Volume Six (Book)

Shape Recognition

Edited by Omid M. Omidvar

Neural network applications have had tremendous growth in the last few years, and pattern recognition played a key role in many areas. One of the more focused areas is shape recognition.

The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with a fresh perspective on the research. 

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Dr. Omid Omidvar is acting Director of the Program and Information Management Office, and works as a technology analyst in Advanced Technology Program (ATP). Previously, he was the technical director of the SPPARC facility funded by the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC. He has also conducted research on NASA on the design of the neurocontroller for robotics arms, and was the Chief Technology Officer of Technology Research International.

Cortical Images, Self-Organizing Neural Networks and Object Classification               3

Nikolay Petkov

 

Parallel Implementation of a Neural Network Ensemble on the Connection Machine               45

Daijin Kim

Minsoo Suk

 

Boolean Neural Networks Trained with Simulated Annealing               85

Jarkko Niittylahti

 

On the Computational Complexity of Analyzing the Hopfield-Clique Network               103

Arun Jagota

 

A Harmony-Maximisation Network Implementation of a Compound Labeling Scheme

for Scene Analysis               119

Tatiana Tambouratzis

 

Optimal Image Boundary via Hopfield Net and Tunneling               161

William Cheung

Roland Chin

Tong Lee

 

Shape Matching Based on Invariants               209

Stan Z. Li

 

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