Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2008: 18th International Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, September 3-6, 2008, Proceedings, Part I

Front Matter....Pages -
Dimension Reduction for Mixtures of Exponential Families....Pages 1-10
Several Enhancements to Hermite-Based Approximation of One-Variable Functions....Pages 11-20
Multi-category Bayesian Decision by Neural Networks....Pages 21-30
Estimates of Network Complexity and Integral Representations....Pages 31-40
Reliability of Cross-Validation for SVMs in High-Dimensional, Low Sample Size Scenarios....Pages 41-50
Generalization of Concave and Convex Decomposition in Kikuchi Free Energy....Pages 51-60
Analysis of Chaotic Dynamics Using Measures of the Complex Network Theory....Pages 61-70
Global Dynamics of Finite Cellular Automata....Pages 71-78
Semi-supervised Learning of Tree-Structured RBF Networks Using Co-training....Pages 79-88
A New Type of ART2 Architecture and Application to Color Image Segmentation....Pages 89-98
BICA: A Boolean Indepenedent Component Analysis Approach....Pages 99-108
Improving the Learning Speed in 2-Layered LSTM Network by Estimating the Configuration of Hidden Units and Optimizing Weights Initialization....Pages 109-118
Manifold Construction Using the Multilayer Perceptron....Pages 119-127
Improving Performance of a Binary Classifier by Training Set Selection....Pages 128-135
An Overcomplete ICA Algorithm by InfoMax and InfoMin....Pages 136-144
OP-ELM: Theory, Experiments and a Toolbox....Pages 145-154
Robust Nonparametric Probability Density Estimation by Soft Clustering....Pages 155-164
Natural Conjugate Gradient on Complex Flag Manifolds for Complex Independent Subspace Analysis....Pages 165-174
Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programming for Subspace Selection in Kernel Regression Estimation....Pages 175-184
The Influence of the Risk Functional in Data Classification with MLPs....Pages 185-194
Nonnegative Least Squares Learning for the Random Neural Network....Pages 195-204
Sparse Bayes Machines for Binary Classification....Pages 205-214
Tikhonov Regularization Parameter in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces with Respect to the Sensitivity of the Solution....Pages 215-224
Mixture of Expert Used to Learn Game Play....Pages 225-234
Unsupervised Bayesian Network Learning for Object Recognition in Image Sequences....Pages 235-244
Using Feature Distribution Methods in Ensemble Systems Combined by Fusion and Selection-Based Methods....Pages 245-254
Bayesian Ying-Yang Learning on Orthogonal Binary Factor Analysis....Pages 255-264
A Comparative Study on Data Smoothing Regularization for Local Factor Analysis....Pages 265-274
Adding Diversity in Ensembles of Neural Networks by Reordering the Training Set....Pages 275-284
New Results on Combination Methods for Boosting Ensembles....Pages 285-294
Batch Support Vector Training Based on Exact Incremental Training....Pages 295-304
A Kernel Method for the Optimization of the Margin Distribution....Pages 305-314
A 4–Vector MDM Algorithm for Support Vector Training....Pages 315-324
Implementation Issues of an Incremental and Decremental SVM....Pages 325-335
Online Clustering of Non-stationary Data Using Incremental and Decremental SVM....Pages 336-345
Support Vector Machines for Visualization and Dimensionality Reduction....Pages 346-356
Multigrid Reinforcement Learning with Reward Shaping....Pages 357-366
Self-organized Reinforcement Learning Based on Policy Gradient in Nonstationary Environments....Pages 367-376
Robust Population Coding in Free-Energy-Based Reinforcement Learning....Pages 377-386
Policy Gradients with Parameter-Based Exploration for Control....Pages 387-396
A Continuous Internal-State Controller for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes....Pages 397-406
Episodic Reinforcement Learning by Logistic Reward-Weighted Regression....Pages 407-416
Error-Entropy Minimization for Dynamical Systems Modeling....Pages 417-425
Hybrid Evolution of Heterogeneous Neural Networks....Pages 426-434
Ant Colony Optimization with Castes....Pages 435-442
Neural Network Ensembles for Classification Problems Using Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms....Pages 443-451
Analysis of Vestibular-Ocular Reflex by Evolutionary Framework....Pages 452-461
Fetal Weight Prediction Models: Standard Techniques or Computational Intelligence Methods?....Pages 462-471
Evolutionary Canonical Particle Swarm Optimizer – A Proposal of Meta-optimization in Model Selection....Pages 472-481
Building Localized Basis Function Networks Using Context Dependent Clustering....Pages 482-491
Adaptation of Connectionist Weighted Fuzzy Logic Programs with Kripke-Kleene Semantics....Pages 492-502
Neuro-fuzzy System for Road Signs Recognition....Pages 503-512
Neuro-inspired Speech Recognition with Recurrent Spiking Neurons....Pages 513-522
Predicting the Performance of Learning Algorithms Using Support Vector Machines as Meta-regressors....Pages 523-532
Municipal Creditworthiness Modelling by Kohonen’s Self-Organizing Feature Maps and Fuzzy Logic Neural Networks....Pages 533-542
Implementing Boolean Matrix Factorization....Pages 543-552
Application of Potts-Model Perceptron for Binary Patterns Identification....Pages 553-561
Using ARTMAP-Based Ensemble Systems Designed by Three Variants of Boosting....Pages 562-571
Matrix Learning for Topographic Neural Maps....Pages 572-582
Clustering Quality and Topology Preservation in Fast Learning SOMs....Pages 583-592
Enhancing Topology Preservation during Neural Field Development Via Wiring Length Minimization....Pages 593-602
Adaptive Translation: Finding Interlingual Mappings Using Self-Organizing Maps....Pages 603-612
Self-Organizing Neural Grove: Efficient Multiple Classifier System with Pruned Self-Generating Neural Trees....Pages 613-622
Self-organized Complex Neural Networks through Nonlinear Temporally Asymmetric Hebbian Plasticity....Pages 623-631
Temporal Hebbian Self-Organizing Map for Sequences....Pages 632-641
FLSOM with Different Rates for Classification in Imbalanced Datasets....Pages 642-651
A Self-organizing Neural System for Background and Foreground Modeling....Pages 652-661
Analyzing the Behavior of the SOM through Wavelet Decomposition of Time Series Generated during Its Execution....Pages 662-670
Decreasing Neighborhood Revisited in Self-Organizing Maps....Pages 671-679
A New GHSOM Model Applied to Network Security....Pages 680-689
Reduction of Visual Information in Neural Network Learning Visualization....Pages 690-699
Heuristiscs-Based High-Level Strategy for Multi-agent Systems....Pages 700-709
Echo State Networks for Online Prediction of Movement Data – Comparing Investigations....Pages 710-719
Comparison of RBF Network Learning and Reinforcement Learning on the Maze Exploration Problem....Pages 720-729
Modular Neural Networks for Model-Free Behavioral Learning....Pages 730-739
From Exploration to Planning....Pages 740-749
Sentence-Level Evaluation Using Co-occurences of N-Grams....Pages 750-758
Identifying Single Source Data for Mixing Matrix Estimation in Instantaneous Blind Source Separation....Pages 759-767
ECG Signal Classification Using GAME Neural Network and Its Comparison to Other Classifiers....Pages 768-777
Predictive Modeling with Echo State Networks....Pages 778-787
Sparse Coding Neural Gas for the Separation of Noisy Overcomplete Sources....Pages 788-797
Mutual Information Based Input Variable Selection Algorithm and Wavelet Neural Network for Time Series Prediction....Pages 798-807
Stable Output Feedback in Reservoir Computing Using Ridge Regression....Pages 808-817
Spatio-temporal Summarizing Method of Periodic Image Sequences with Kohonen Maps....Pages 818-826
Image Classification by Histogram Features Created with Learning Vector Quantization....Pages 827-836
A Statistical Model for Histogram Refinement....Pages 837-846
Efficient Video Shot Summarization Using an Enhanced Spectral Clustering Approach....Pages 847-856
Surface Reconstruction Techniques Using Neural Networks to Recover Noisy 3D Scenes....Pages 857-866
A Spatio-temporal Extension of the SUSAN-Filter....Pages 867-876
A Neighborhood-Based Competitive Network for Video Segmentation and Object Detection....Pages 877-886
A Hierarchic Method for Footprint Segmentation Based on SOM....Pages 887-896
Co-occurrence Matrixes for the Quality Assessment of Coded Images....Pages 897-906
Semantic Adaptation of Neural Network Classifiers in Image Segmentation....Pages 907-916
Partially Monotone Networks Applied to Breast Cancer Detection on Mammograms....Pages 917-926
A Neuro-fuzzy Approach to User Attention Recognition....Pages 927-936
TriangleVision: A Toy Visual System....Pages 937-950
Face Recognition with VG-RAM Weightless Neural Networks....Pages 951-960
Invariant Object Recognition with Slow Feature Analysis....Pages 961-970
Analysis-by-Synthesis by Learning to Invert Generative Black Boxes....Pages 971-981
A Bio-inspired Connectionist Architecture for Visual Classification of Moving Objects....Pages 982-990
A Visual Object Recognition System Invariant to Scale and Rotation....Pages 991-1000
Recognizing Facial Expressions: A Comparison of Computational Approaches....Pages 1001-1010
A Probabilistic Prediction Method for Object Contour Tracking....Pages 1011-1020
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