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COMBINING MULTIPLE NEURAL NETWORKS BY FUZZY INTEGRAL FOR ROBUST CLASSIFICATION
No full textRecently, in the area of artificial neural networks, the concept of combining multiple networks has been proposed as a new direction for the development of highly reliable neural network systems. In this paper we propose a method for multinetwork combination based on the fuzzy integral. This technique nonlinearly combines objective evidence, in the form of a fuzzy membership function, with subjective evaluation of the worth of the individual neural networks with respect to the decision. The experimental results with the recognition problem of on-line handwriting characters confirm the superiority of the presented method to the other voting techniques
RECOGNITION OF LARGE-SET PRINTED HANGUL (KOREAN SCRIPT) BY 2-STAGE BACKPROPAGATION NEURAL CLASSIFIER
No full textA two-stage neural network classifier is described which practically recognizes printed Hangul (Korean script). This classifier is composed of a type classification network and six recognition networks. The former classifies input character images into one of the six types by their overall structure, and then the latter classify them into character code. Furthermore, a training scheme including systematic noises is introduced for improving the generalization capability of the networks. Experiments are conducted with the most frequently used 990 printed Hangul syllables. By the noise included training, the recognition rate amounts to 98.28%, which is better than that of the conventional backpropagation learning. A comparison with a statistical classifier and an analysis of generalization capability confirm the relative superiority of the proposed classification method
AN HMM/MLP ARCHITECTURE FOR SEQUENCE RECOGNITION
No full textThis paper presents a hybrid architecture of hidden Markov models (HMMs) and a multilayer perceptron (MLP). This exploits the discriminative capability of a neural network classifier while using HMM formalism to capture the dynamics of input patterns. The main purpose is to improve the discriminative power of the HMM-based recognizer by additionally classifying the likelihood values inside them with an MLP classifier. To appreciate the performance of the presented method, we apply it to the recognition problem of on-line handwritten characters. Simulations show that the proposed architecture leads to a significant improvement in generalization performance over conventional approaches to sequential pattern recognition
RAPID BACKPROPAGATION LEARNING ALGORITHMS
No full textOne of the major drawbacks of the backpropagation algorithm is its slow rate of convergence. Researchers have tried several different approaches to speed up the convergence of backpropagation learning. In this paper, we present those rapid learning methods as three categories, and implement the representative methods of each category: (1) for the numerical method based approach, the Aitken's DELTA2 process, (2) for the heuristics based approach, the dynamic adaptation of learning rate, and (3) for the learning strategy based approach, the selective presentation of learning samples. Based on these implementations, the performance is evaluated with experiments and the merits and demerits are briefly discussed
MULTIPLE NETWORK FUSION USING FUZZY-LOGIC
No full textMultiplayer feedforward networks trained by minimizing the mean squared error and by using a one of c teaching function yield network outputs that estimate posterior class probabilities. This provides a sound basis for combining the results from multiple networks to get more accurate classification. This paper presents a method for combining multiple networks based on fuzzy logic, especially the fuzzy integral. This method non-linearly combines objective evidence, in the form of a network output, with subjective evaluation of the importance of the individual neural networks. The experimental results with the recognition problem of on-line handwriting characters show that the performance of individual networks could be improved significantly
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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