Procedural Knowledge Processing Based on Area Representation Using a Neural Network

Author(s):  
Seiya Fujinaga ◽  
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Masafumi Hagiwara

In this paper, a neural network that treats procedural knowledge based on area representation is proposed. The main theme of this paper is to propose a novel neural network that processes procedural knowledge. The network employs formerly proposed ideas such as "area representation" and "improved Hebbian learning." Area representation expresses information by a group of neurons. Since it is considered as a combination of localized and distributed representation, it has many advantages such as robustness, high efficiency for information representation, and potential ability to treat similarity of data. The proposed network based on area representation is constructed to store and recall procedural knowledge. We performed various kinds of computer simulations to examine the validity and effectiveness of the proposed network.

Author(s):  
Yuko Osana ◽  
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Masafumi Hagiwara

In this paper, we propose a knowledge processing system using chaotic associative memory (KPCAM). KPCAM is based on a chaotic neural network (CAM) composed of chaotic neurons. In conventional chaotic neural network, when a stored pattern is given continuously to the network as an external input, the input pattern vicinity is searched. The CAM makes use of this property to separate superimposed patterns and to deal with many-tomany associations. In this research, the CAM is applied to knowledge processing in which knowledge is represented in a form of semantic network. The proposed KPCAM has the following features: (1) it can deal with knowledge represented in a form of semantic network; (2) it can deal with characteristic inheritance; (3) it is robust for noisy input. A series of computer simulations shows the effectiveness of the proposed system.


Author(s):  
Yunfei Fu ◽  
Hongchuan Yu ◽  
Chih-Kuo Yeh ◽  
Tong-Yee Lee ◽  
Jian J. Zhang

Brushstrokes are viewed as the artist’s “handwriting” in a painting. In many applications such as style learning and transfer, mimicking painting, and painting authentication, it is highly desired to quantitatively and accurately identify brushstroke characteristics from old masters’ pieces using computer programs. However, due to the nature of hundreds or thousands of intermingling brushstrokes in the painting, it still remains challenging. This article proposes an efficient algorithm for brush Stroke extraction based on a Deep neural network, i.e., DStroke. Compared to the state-of-the-art research, the main merit of the proposed DStroke is to automatically and rapidly extract brushstrokes from a painting without manual annotation, while accurately approximating the real brushstrokes with high reliability. Herein, recovering the faithful soft transitions between brushstrokes is often ignored by the other methods. In fact, the details of brushstrokes in a master piece of painting (e.g., shapes, colors, texture, overlaps) are highly desired by artists since they hold promise to enhance and extend the artists’ powers, just like microscopes extend biologists’ powers. To demonstrate the high efficiency of the proposed DStroke, we perform it on a set of real scans of paintings and a set of synthetic paintings, respectively. Experiments show that the proposed DStroke is noticeably faster and more accurate at identifying and extracting brushstrokes, outperforming the other methods.


2013 ◽  
Vol 718-720 ◽  
pp. 1961-1966
Author(s):  
Hong Sheng Xu ◽  
Qing Tan

Electronic commerce recommendation system can effectively retain user, prevent users from erosion, and improve e-commerce system sales. BP neural network using iterative operation, solving the weights of the neural network and close values to corresponding network process of learning and memory, to join the hidden layer nodes of the optimization problem of adjustable parameters increase. Ontology learning is the use of machine learning and statistical techniques, with automatic or semi-automatic way, from the existing data resources and obtaining desired body. The paper presents building electronic commerce recommendation system based on ontology learning and BP neural network. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has high efficiency.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1365
Author(s):  
Tao Zheng ◽  
Zhizhao Duan ◽  
Jin Wang ◽  
Guodong Lu ◽  
Shengjie Li ◽  
...  

Semantic segmentation of room maps is an essential issue in mobile robots’ execution of tasks. In this work, a new approach to obtain the semantic labels of 2D lidar room maps by combining distance transform watershed-based pre-segmentation and a skillfully designed neural network lidar information sampling classification is proposed. In order to label the room maps with high efficiency, high precision and high speed, we have designed a low-power and high-performance method, which can be deployed on low computing power Raspberry Pi devices. In the training stage, a lidar is simulated to collect the lidar detection line maps of each point in the manually labelled map, and then we use these line maps and the corresponding labels to train the designed neural network. In the testing stage, the new map is first pre-segmented into simple cells with the distance transformation watershed method, then we classify the lidar detection line maps with the trained neural network. The optimized areas of sparse sampling points are proposed by using the result of distance transform generated in the pre-segmentation process to prevent the sampling points selected in the boundary regions from influencing the results of semantic labeling. A prototype mobile robot was developed to verify the proposed method, the feasibility, validity, robustness and high efficiency were verified by a series of tests. The proposed method achieved higher scores in its recall, precision. Specifically, the mean recall is 0.965, and mean precision is 0.943.


1995 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 1191-1205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Fyfe

A review is given of a new artificial neural network architecture in which the weights converge to the principal component subspace. The weights learn by only simple Hebbian learning yet require no clipping, normalization or weight decay. The net self-organizes using negative feedback of activation from a set of "interneurons" to the input neurons. By allowing this negative feedback from the interneurons to act on other interneurons we can introduce the necessary asymmetry to cause convergence to the actual principal components. Simulations and analysis confirm such convergence.


2006 ◽  
Vol 45 (06) ◽  
pp. 610-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. T. Tzallas ◽  
P. S. Karvelis ◽  
C. D. Katsis ◽  
S. Giannopoulos ◽  
S. Konitsiotis ◽  
...  

Summary Objectives: The aim of the paper is to analyze transient events in inter-ictal EEG recordings, and classify epileptic activity into focal or generalized epilepsy using an automated method. Methods: A two-stage approach is proposed. In the first stage the observed transient events of a single channel are classified into four categories: epileptic spike (ES), muscle activity (EMG), eye blinking activity (EOG), and sharp alpha activity (SAA). The process is based on an artificial neural network. Different artificial neural network architectures have been tried and the network having the lowest error has been selected using the hold out approach. In the second stage a knowledge-based system is used to produce diagnosis for focal or generalized epileptic activity. Results: The classification of transient events reported high overall accuracy (84.48%), while the knowledge-based system for epilepsy diagnosis correctly classified nine out of ten cases. Conclusions: The proposed method is advantageous since it effectively detects and classifies the undesirable activity into appropriate categories and produces a final outcome related to the existence of epilepsy.


2018 ◽  
Vol 141 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hari P. N. Nagarajan ◽  
Hossein Mokhtarian ◽  
Hesam Jafarian ◽  
Saoussen Dimassi ◽  
Shahriar Bakrani-Balani ◽  
...  

Additive manufacturing (AM) continues to rise in popularity due to its various advantages over traditional manufacturing processes. AM interests industry, but achieving repeatable production quality remains problematic for many AM technologies. Thus, modeling different process variables in AM using machine learning can be highly beneficial in creating useful knowledge of the process. Such developed artificial neural network (ANN) models would aid designers and manufacturers to make informed decisions about their products and processes. However, it is challenging to define an appropriate ANN topology that captures the AM system behavior. Toward that goal, an approach combining dimensional analysis conceptual modeling (DACM) and classical ANNs is proposed to create a new type of knowledge-based ANN (KB-ANN). This approach integrates existing literature and expert knowledge of the AM process to define a topology for the KB-ANN model. The proposed KB-ANN is a hybrid learning network that encompasses topological zones derived from knowledge of the process and other zones where missing knowledge is modeled using classical ANNs. The usefulness of the method is demonstrated using a case study to model wall thickness, part height, and total part mass in a fused deposition modeling (FDM) process. The KB-ANN-based model for FDM has the same performance with better generalization capabilities using fewer weights trained, when compared to a classical ANN.


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