The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) is an efficient tool for visualizing high-dimensional data. In this paper, an intuitive and effective SOM projection method is proposed for mapping high-dimensional data onto the two-dime...
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The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) is an efficient tool for visualizing high-dimensional data. In this paper, an intuitive and effective SOM projection method is proposed for mapping high-dimensional data onto the two-dimensional grid structure with a growing self-organizing mechanism. In the learning phase, a growing SOM is trained and the growing cell structure is used as the baseline framework. In the ordination phase, the new projection method is used to map the input vector so that the input data is mapped to the structure of the SOM without having to plot the weight values, resulting in easy visualization of the data. The projection method is demonstrated on four different data sets, including a 118 patent data set and a 399 checical abstract data set related to polymer cements, with promising results and a significantly reduced network size.
In this research it is claimed that engineering education increases the positivistic tendencies of students regarding to the social problems. A theoretical background is given in the introduction and literature review...
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This paper presents a new topological structure for use in the context of hierarchical radiosity combined with discontinuity meshing. This is most useful for a new strategy adopted for subdividing the elements of a sc...
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This paper presents a new topological structure for use in the context of hierarchical radiosity combined with discontinuity meshing. This is most useful for a new strategy adopted for subdividing the elements of a scene consisting of convex polygons. The subdivision is done in a local optimization manner keeping the aspect ratios of produced polygons low. The generated meshes give high visual accuracy.
The purpose of this paper is to present a modified version of the ant colony system (ACS) algorithm. The modified ACS algorithm is faster and it has a better performance than the standard ACS algorithm. We have establ...
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The purpose of this paper is to present a modified version of the ant colony system (ACS) algorithm. The modified ACS algorithm is faster and it has a better performance than the standard ACS algorithm. We have established a set of local rules/modifications, that do improve the performance of the standard ACS and these are reported here.
An advanced sonar sensor produces accurate range and bearing measurements, classifies targets and rejects interference with one sensing cycle. Two advanced sonar systems are used to simultaneously localise and map an ...
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An advanced sonar sensor produces accurate range and bearing measurements, classifies targets and rejects interference with one sensing cycle. Two advanced sonar systems are used to simultaneously localise and map an indoor environment using a mobile robot. This paper presents the approach and results from on-the-fly map building using a Kalman filter and a new odometry error model that incorporates variations in effective wheel separation and angle measurements. This model is suited to pneumatic tyre odometry errors where the wheel separation has been found to vary unpredictably with floor surface and path curvature. The paper also presents techniques for detecting sonar feature clutter and selecting strong candidates for ultrasonic landmarks. The paper illustrates that sonar SLAM data association problems are significantly simplified when advanced sonar sensors are employed compared to Polaroid ranging modules.
Giving the ability to read characters and symbols is highly desirable for increased autonomy of mobile robots operating in the real world. The idea is fairly simple: give a robot the ability to acquire an image of a m...
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Giving the ability to read characters and symbols is highly desirable for increased autonomy of mobile robots operating in the real world. The idea is fairly simple: give a robot the ability to acquire an image of a message to read, extract the symbols and recognize them. Image character recognition research has been going on for decades now, with good results. But compared to conventional character recognition systems, the challenge with a mobile robot is to find a textual message to capture in the world and to get a good view of the message, knowing that the viewpoint of the robot depends on its position in relation to the message, which cannot be pre-specified. In this paper we present our approach making it possible for an autonomous mobile robot to read messages. We outline the constraints under which the approach works, and present results obtained using a Pioneer 2 robot equipped with a Pentium 233 MHz and a pan-tilt-zoom camera.
Research projects about evolution of agents in a cellular world are not new topics in the artificial life (AL) fields. However, most of the studies focus on those fundamental, social behaviours like energy preservatio...
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Research projects about evolution of agents in a cellular world are not new topics in the artificial life (AL) fields. However, most of the studies focus on those fundamental, social behaviours like energy preservation, pattern formation or leader following etc. This paper presents experiments about applications of genetic algorithms (GAs) to an empirical multiple robot cooperative task: unknown environment exploration. These experiments investigate the effectiveness of GAs for evolving behaviours of individual swarm members that constitute good collective results. They try to answer the questions of (i) Can GAs find such behaviours, or, do such behaviours exist? (ii) Are these behaviours sensitive to environmental changes?.
In this research it is claimed that engineering education increases the positivistic tendencies of students regarding to the social problems. A theoretical background is given in the introduction and literature review...
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In this research it is claimed that engineering education increases the positivistic tendencies of students regarding to the social problems. A theoretical background is given in the introduction and literature review. Two hypotheses are constructed and a micro-questionnaire survey is performed to test the hypotheses. In the survey positivistic tendencies of engineering students and social science students are compared. The results are depicted and discussed in detail. One of the hypotheses was approved by the results while the other was rejected. It is concluded that the rejected hypothesis was not in accordance with the claim since it overlooked some factors effecting positivism. The results of the survey support the claim by stating that ’engineering students are more positivist than social science students’.
A heuristic, automatic facial feature extraction approach is presented in this paper. The method is based on the edge density distribution of the image, containing non-occluded, nearly frontal view of one or more face...
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A heuristic, automatic facial feature extraction approach is presented in this paper. The method is based on the edge density distribution of the image, containing non-occluded, nearly frontal view of one or more faces. In the preprocessing stage, a face is approximated to an ellipse, and genetic algorithm is applied to search for the best ellipse region match. In the feature extraction stage, genetic algorithm is applied to extract the facial features, such as the eyes (with eyebrows), nose and mouth, in the predefined subregions. The simulation results validates that the proposed method is capable of automatically extracting features from various video images effectively under natural lighting environments and in the presence of complex backgrounds, certain amount of artificial noise and of multi-face oriented with angles. This preliminary study advanced from a rich literature provides robust facial feature detection under certain variations in lighting conditions and backgrounds.
In this paper, we propose a genetic algorithm based design procedure for a radial-basis function neural network. A Hierarchical Rank Density Genetic Algorithm (HRDGA) is used to evolve the neural network's topolog...
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In this paper, we propose a genetic algorithm based design procedure for a radial-basis function neural network. A Hierarchical Rank Density Genetic Algorithm (HRDGA) is used to evolve the neural network's topology and parameters simultaneously. Compared with traditional genetic algorithm based designs for neural networks, the hierarchical approach addresses several deficiencies highlighted in literature. In addition, the rank-density based fitness assignment technique is used to optimize the performance and topology of the evolved neural network to deal with the confliction between the training performance and network complexity. Instead of producing a single optimal solution, HRDGA provides a set of near-optimal neural networks to the designers so that they can have more flexibility for the final decision-making based on certain preferences. In terms of searching for a near-complete set of candidate networks with high performances, the networks designed by the proposed algorithm prove to be competitive, or even superior, to three other traditional radial-basis function networks for predicting Mackey–Glass chaotic time series.
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