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Massively distributed implementation of a spiking neural network for image segmentation on FPGA
No full textInternational audienceNumerous neural network hardware implementations now use digital reconfigurable devices such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) thanks to an interesting compromise between the hardware efficiency of Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) and the flexibility of a simple software-like handling. Another current trend of neural research focuses on elementary neural mechanisms such as spiking neurons. Their rather simple and asynchronous behavior have motivated several implementations on analog devices, whereas digital implementations appear as quite unable to handle large spiking neural networks, for lack of density. In this paper, we develop an optimized FPGA implementation of a standard spiking model (LEGION) of integrate-and-fire neurons, used for sequence image segmentation. Despite previous research, little progress has been made in building successful neural systems for image segmentation in digital hardware. This work shows that digital and flexible solutions may efficiently handle large networks of spiking neurons
Massively distributed implementation of a spiking neural network for image segmentation on FPGA
No full textInternational audienceNumerous neural network hardware implementations now use digital reconfigurable devices such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) thanks to an interesting compromise between the hardware efficiency of Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) and the flexibility of a simple software-like handling. Another current trend of neural research focuses on elementary neural mechanisms such as spiking neurons. Their rather simple and asynchronous behavior have motivated several implementations on analog devices, whereas digital implementations appear as quite unable to handle large spiking neural networks, for lack of density. In this paper, we develop an optimized FPGA implementation of a standard spiking model (LEGION) of integrate-and-fire neurons, used for sequence image segmentation. Despite previous research, little progress has been made in building successful neural systems for image segmentation in digital hardware. This work shows that digital and flexible solutions may efficiently handle large networks of spiking neurons
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
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Fault Tolerance of Self Organizing Maps
No full textInternational audienceAs the quest for performance confronts resource constraints, major breakthroughs in computing efficiency are expected to benefit from unconventional approaches and new models of computation such as brain-inspired computing. Beyond energy, the growing number of defects in physical substrates is becoming another major constraint that affects the design of computing devices and systems. Neural computing principles remain elusive, yet they are considered as the source of a promising paradigm to achieve fault-tolerant computation. Since the quest for fault tolerance can be translated into scalable and reliable computing systems, hardware design itself and the potential use of faulty circuits have motivated further the investigation on neural networks, which are potentially capable of absorbing some degrees of vulnerability based on their natural properties. In this paper, the fault tolerance properties of Self Organizing Maps (SOMs) are investigated. To asses the intrinsic fault tolerance and considering a general fully parallel digital implementations of SOM, we use the bit-flip fault model to inject faults in registers holding SOM weights. The distortion measure is used to evaluate performance on synthetic datasets and under different fault ratios. Additionally, we evaluate three passive techniques intended to enhance fault tolerance of SOM during training/learning under different scenarios
Fault Tolerance of Self Organizing Maps
No full textInternational audienceAs the quest for performance confronts resource constraints, major breakthroughs in computing efficiency are expected to benefit from unconventional approaches and new models of computation such as brain-inspired computing. Beyond energy, the growing number of defects in physical substrates is becoming another major constraint that affects the design of computing devices and systems. Neural computing principles remain elusive, yet they are considered as the source of a promising paradigm to achieve fault-tolerant computation. Since the quest for fault tolerance can be translated into scalable and reliable computing systems, hardware design itself and the potential use of faulty circuits have motivated further the investigation on neural networks, which are potentially capable of absorbing some degrees of vulnerability based on their natural properties. In this paper, the fault tolerance properties of Self Organizing Maps (SOMs) are investigated. To asses the intrinsic fault tolerance and considering a general fully parallel digital implementations of SOM, we use the bit-flip fault model to inject faults in registers holding SOM weights. The distortion measure is used to evaluate performance on synthetic datasets and under different fault ratios. Additionally, we evaluate three passive techniques intended to enhance fault tolerance of SOM during training/learning under different scenarios
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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