This paper presents a deterministic and adaptive spike model derived from radial basis functionsand a leaky integrate-and-fire sampler developed for training spiking neural networks without directweight manipulation. ...
This paper presents a deterministic and adaptive spike model derived from radial basis functions
and a leaky integrate-and-fire sampler developed for training spiking neural networks without direct
weight manipulation. Several algorithms have been proposed for training spiking neural networks
through biologically-plausible learning mechanisms, such as spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity
and Hebbian plasticity. These algorithms typically rely on the ability to update the synaptic strengths,
or weights, directly, through a weight update rule in which the weight increment can be decided
and implemented based on the training equations. However, in several potential applications of
adaptive spiking neural networks, including neuroprosthetic devices and CMOS/memristor nanoscale
neuromorphic chips, the weights cannot be manipulated directly and, instead, tend to change over time
by virtue of the pre- and postsynaptic neural activity. This paper presents an indirect learning method
that induces changes in the synaptic weights by modulating spike-timing-dependent plasticity by means
of controlled input spike trains. In place of the weights, the algorithm manipulates the input spike trains
used to stimulate the input neurons by determining a sequence of spike timings that minimize a desired
objective function and, indirectly, induce the desired synaptic plasticity in the network.
We report on focus group feedback regarding the services provided by existing education-related Digital Libraries (DL). Participants provided insight into how they seek educational resources online, and what they perc...
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The goal of this work is to understand the role of nano-confinement in designing an inexpensive and user friendly 'point- of- care' (POC) protein biosensor. We used printed circuit board based gold chips and i...
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Integrating optical and wireless broadband access networks is an important step in achieving fixed mobile convergence in metropolitan areas. In this paper, a promising network architecture by integrating a passive opt...
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The 19th robotics program at the annual AAAI conference was held in Atlanta, Georgia, in July 2010. In this article we give a summary of three components of the exhibition: the Small-Scale Manipulation Challenge: Robo...
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We show evidence of electrical and thermal conductivity percolation in polymer based carbon nanotube (CNT) composites, which follow power law variations with respect to the CNT concentrations in the matrix. The experi...
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We show evidence of electrical and thermal conductivity percolation in polymer based carbon nanotube (CNT) composites, which follow power law variations with respect to the CNT concentrations in the matrix. The experimentally obtained percolation thresholds, i.e., ~ 0.074 vol % for single walled CNTs and ~ 2.0 vol % for multi-walled CNTs, were found to be aspect ratio dependent and in accordance with those determined theoretically from excluded volume percolation theory. A much greater enhancement, over 10 orders of magnitude, was obtained in the electrical conductivity at the percolation threshold, while a smaller increase of ~ 100 % was obtained in the thermal conductivity values. Such a difference is qualitatively explained on the basis of the respective conductivity contrast between the CNT filler and the polymer matrix.
Finite Automata (FA) is a base net for many sophisticated probability-based systems of artificial intelligence. However, an FA processes symbols, instead of images that the brain senses and produces (e.g., sensory ima...
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Finite Automata (FA) is a base net for many sophisticated probability-based systems of artificial intelligence. However, an FA processes symbols, instead of images that the brain senses and produces (e.g., sensory images and motor images). Of course, many recurrent artificial neural networks process images. However, their non-calibrated internal states prevent generalization, let alone the feasibility of immediate and error-free learning. I wish to report a general-purpose Developmental program (DP) for a new type of, brain-anatomy inspired, networks - Developmental Networks (DNs). The new theoretical results here are summarized by three theorems. (1) From any complex FA that demonstrates human knowledge through its sequence of the symbolic inputs-outputs, the DP incrementally develops a corresponding DN through the image codes of the symbolic inputs-outputs of the FA. The DN learning from the FA is incremental, immediate and error-free. (2) After learning the FA, if the DN freezes its learning but runs, it generalizes optimally for infinitely many image inputs and actions based on the embedded inner-product distance, state equivalence, and the principle of maximum likelihood. (3) After learning the FA, if the DN continues to learn and run, it “thinks” optimally in the sense of maximum likelihood based on its past experience.
Computational protein-protein docking is a valuable tool for determining the conformation of complexes formed by interacting proteins. Selecting near-native conformations from the large number of possible models gener...
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Telemedicine is a very important area in medical field that is expanding daily motivated by many researchers interested in improving medical applications. In Brazil was started in 2005, in the State of Santa Catarina ...
Telemedicine is a very important area in medical field that is expanding daily motivated by many researchers interested in improving medical applications. In Brazil was started in 2005, in the State of Santa Catarina has a developed server called the CyclopsDCMServer, which the purpose to embrace the HDF for the manipulation of medical images (DICOM) using a distributed file system. Since then, many researches were initiated in order to seek better performance. Our approach for this server represents an additional parallel implementation in I/O operations since HDF version 5 has an essential feature for our work which supports parallel I/O, based upon the MPI paradigm. Early experiments using four parallel nodes, provide good performance when compare to the serial HDF implemented in the CyclopsDCMServer.
This paper presents a novel technique to identify palmprints of individuals for various purposes including security, access control, forensic applications, identification, etc. Palmprints, known to be more robust as b...
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This paper presents a novel technique to identify palmprints of individuals for various purposes including security, access control, forensic applications, identification, etc. Palmprints, known to be more robust as biometrics are being increasingly used in these areas. In this paper the identification of the palmprint of an individual has been done using a transform domain technique where a new transform using the Kronecker product of the existing transforms (DCT and Walsh) is developed and applied to multi-spectral palmprint images. Energy compaction technique in transform domain is applied to reduce the size of feature vector. The properties of both DCT and Walsh transforms are incorporated in the new transform which gives better results than when both the transforms are used individually. The GAR values have been computed for different values of energy considered. The maximum value of GAR obtained is 98.53% for an energy threshold of 99.99% on palmprints under blue illumination. The FAR is found to be 4%.
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