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• Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligent Techniques.- Image Processing and Analysis.- Robotics and Computer Vision.- Natural Language Processing and Recognition.- Applications of Pattern Recognition.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition, MCPR 2015, held in Mexico City Mexico, in June 2015. The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on pattern recognition and artificial intelligence; image processing and analysis; robotics and computer vision; natural language processing and recognition; and applications of pattern recognition.
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• Pattern recognition and machine learning.- Signal and image processing.- Computer vision and video processing.- Soft and natural computing.- Speech and natural language processing.- Bioinformatics and computational biology.- Data mining and big data analytics.- Deep learning.- Spatial data science and engineering.- Applications of pattern recognition and machine intelligence.
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, PReMI 2017, held in Kolkata, India, in December 2017. The total of 86 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 293 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: pattern recognition and machine learning; signal and image processing; computer vision and video processing; soft and natural computing; speech and natural language processing; bioinformatics and computational biology; data mining and big data analytics; deep learning; spatial data science and engineering; and applications of pattern recognition and machine intelligence.
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• Communication in Soccer Simulation: On the Use of Wiretapping Opponent Teams.- Multi-Robot Fast-Paced Coordination With Leader Election.- Visual SLAM-Based Localization and Navigation for Service Robots: The Pepper Case.- Visual Mesh: Real-time Object Detection Using Constant Sample Density.- Fast Multi-Scale fHOG Feature Extraction Using Histogram Downsampling.- Combining Simulations and Real-Robot Experiments for Bayesian Optimization of Bipedal Gait Stabilization.- Learning Skills for Small Size League RoboCup.- Real-time Scene Understanding Using Deep Neural Networks for RoboCup SPL.- Training a RoboCup Striker Agent via Transferred Reinforcement Learning.- Playing Soccer Without Colors in the SPL: A Convolutional Neural Network.- End-to-End Deep Imitation Learning: Robot Soccer Case Study.- Designing Convolutional Neural Networks Using a Genetic Approach for Ball Detection.- ImageTagger: An Open Source Online Platform for Collaborative Image Labeling.- Mimicking an Expert Team Through the Learning of Evaluation Functions from Action Sequences.- Jetson, Where Is the Ball? Using Neural Networks for Ball Detection at RoboCup 2017.- Bridging the Gap - On a Humanoid Robotics Rookie League.- Context Aware Robot Architecture, Application to the Robocup@Home Challenge.- From Commands to Goal-based Dialogs: A Roadmap to Achieve Natural Language Interaction in RoboCup@Home.-RoboCupSimData: Software and Data for Machine Learning from RoboCup Simulation League.- Generation of Laser-Quality 2D Navigation Maps from RGB-D Sensors.- Towards Long-Term Memory for Social Robots: Proposing a New Challenge for the RoboCup@Home.- eEVA: Real-Time Web-Based Affective Agents for Human-Robot Interface.- Evaluation of Situations in RoboCup 2D Simulations Using Soccer Field Images.- Near Real-Time Object Recognition for Pepper Based on Deep Neural Networks Running on a Backpack.- Multimodal Movement Activity Recognition Using a Robot's Proprioceptive Sensors.- Survey of Rescue Competitions and Proposal of New Standard Task from Ordinary Tasks.- Adjusted Bounded Weighted Policy Learner.- Towards Real-Time Ball Localization Using CNNs.- Deep Learning for Semantic Segmentation on Minimal Hardware.- RoboCup Junior in the Hunter Region: Driving the Future of Robotic STEM Education Distributed Circumnavigation Control with Dynamic Spacings for a Heterogeneous Multi-Robot System.- Prediction of a Ball Trajectory for the Humanoid Robots: A Friction-Based Study.- RoboCup SSL 2018 Champion Team Paper.- Tech United Eindhoven Middle Size League Winner 2018.- Ichiro Robots Winning RoboCup 2018 Humanoid TeenSize Soccer Competitions.- NimbRo Robots Winning RoboCup 2018 Humanoid AdultSize Soccer Competitions.- HELIO
• S2018: RoboCup 2018 Soccer Simulation 2D League Champion.- UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2018 3D Simulation League Champions.- Integrating the Latest Artificial Intelligence Algorithms in the RoboCup Rescue Simulation framework.- Robust and Flexible System Architecture for Facing the RoboCup Logistics League Challenge.- RoboCup@Work 2018 Team AutonOHM.- homer@UniKoblenz: Winning Team of the RoboCup@Home Open Platform League 2018.- ToBI - Team of Bielefeld: Enhancing the Robot Capabilities of the Social Standard Platform Pepper. .
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This book includes the post-conference proceedings of the 22nd RoboCup International Symposium, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in June 2018. The 32 full revised papers and 11 papers from the winning teams presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. This book highlights the approaches of champion teams from the competitions and documents the proceedings of the 22nd annual RoboCup International Symposium. Due to the complex research challenges set by the RoboCup initiative, the RoboCup International Symposium offers a unique perspective for exploring scientific and engineering principles underlying advanced robotic and AI systems.
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• to Pattern Recognition and Classification in Medical and Astrophysical Images.- Image Standardization and Enhancement.- Intensity and Region-Based Feature Recognition in Solar Images.- Advanced Feature Recognition and Classification Using Artificial Intelligence Paradigms.- Feature Recognition and Classification Using Spectral Methods.
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This book presents innovative techniques in recognition and classification of astrophysical and medical images. Coverage includes: image standardization and enhancement; region-based methods for pattern recognition in medical and astrophysical images; advanced information processing using statistical methods; and feature recognition and classification using spectral method.
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• Chapter 1: Installation and Environment Setup
• Chapter Goal: Making System Ready for Image Processing and Analysis
• No of pages 20
• Sub -Topics (Top 2)
• 1.
• Installing Jupyter Notebook
• 2.
• Installing OpenCV and other Image Analysis dependencies
• 3.
• Installing Neural Network Dependencies
• Chapter 2: Introduction to Python and Image Processing
• Chapter Goal: Introduction to different concepts of Python and Image processing Application on it.
• No of pages: 50
• Sub - Topics (Top 2)
• 1. Essentials of Python
• 2. Terminologies related to Image Analysis
• Chapter 3: Advanced Image Processing using OpenCV
• Chapter Goal: Understanding Algorithms and their applications using Python
• No of pages: 100
• Sub - Topics (Top 2):
• 1.
• Operations on Images
• 2.
• Image Transformations
• Chapter 4: Machine Learning Approaches in Image Processing
• Chapter Goal: Basic Implementation of Machine and Deep Learning Models, which takes care of Image Processing, before applications in real-time scenario
• No of pages: 100
• Sub - Topics (Top 2):
• 1.
• Image Classification and Segmentation
• 2.
• Applying Supervised and Unsupervised Learning approaches on Images using Python
• Chapter 5: Real Time Use Cases
• Chapter Goal: Working on 5 projects using Python, applying all the concepts learned in this book
• No of pages: 100
• Sub - Topics (Top 5):
• 1. Facial Detection
• 2. Facial Recognition
• 3. Hand Gesture Movement Recognition
• 4. Self-Driving Cars Conceptualization: Advanced Lane Finding
• 5. Self-Driving Cars Conceptualization: Traffic Signs Detection
• Chapter 6: Appendix A
• Chapter Goal: Advanced concepts Introduction
• No of pages: 50
• Sub - Topics (Top 2):
• 1. AdaBoost and XGBoost
• 2. Pulse Coupled Neural Networks.
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Gain insights into image-processing methodologies and algorithms, using machine learning and neural networks in Python. This book begins with the environment setup, understanding basic image-processing terminology, and exploring Python concepts that will be useful for implementing the algorithms discussed in the book. You will then cover all the core image processing algorithms in detail before moving onto the biggest computer vision library: OpenCV. You'll see the OpenCV algorithms and how to use them for image processing. The next section looks at advanced machine learning and deep learning methods for image processing and classification. You'll work with concepts such as pulse coupled neural networks, AdaBoost, XG boost, and convolutional neural networks for image-specific applications. Later you'll explore how models are made in real time and then deployed using various DevOps tools. All the concepts in Practical Machine Learning and Image Processing are explained using real-life scenarios. After reading this book you will be able to apply image processing techniques and make machine learning models for customized application. What You Will Learn Discover image-processing algorithms and their applications using Python Explore image processing using the OpenCV library Use TensorFlow, scikit-learn, NumPy, and other libraries Work with machine learning and deep learning algorithms for image processing Apply image-processing techniques to five real-time projects Who This Book Is For Data scientists and software developers interested in image processing and computer vision.
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• Foreword. Introduction. Part I: Measuring Success. 1 Why Understanding Your Web Traffic Is Important to Your Business. 2 Available Methodologies. 3 Where Google Analytics Fits. Part II: Using Google Analytics Reports. 4 Using the Google Analytics Interface. 5 Top 10 Reports Explained Part III: Implementing Google Analytics. 6 Getting Started. 7 Advanced Implementation. 8 Best Practices Configuration Guide. 9 Google Analytics Hacks. Part IV: Using Visitor Data to Drive Website Improvement. 10 Focusing on Key Performance Indicators. 11 Real-World Tasks. 12 Integrating Google Analytics Data with Third-Party Systems. Appendix A Regular Expression Overview. Understanding the Fundamentals. Regex Examples. Appendix B Useful Tools. Tools to Audit Your GATC Deployment. Firefox Add-ons. Desktop Helper Applications. Appendix C Recommended Further Reading. Books on Web Analytics and Related Areas. Web Resources. Blog Roll for Web Analytics. Index.
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Packed with insider tips and tricks, this how-to guide is fully revised to cover the latest version of Google Analytics and shows you how to implement proven Web analytics methods and concepts. This second edition of the bestselling Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics is the perfect book for marketers, vendors, consultants, and Webmasters who want to learn the installation, configuration, tracking techniques, and best practices of Google Analytics.* Google Analytics is a free tool that measures Web site effectiveness and helps users better understand how web site performance; this book is a detailed usage guide written by one of the software's original creators* Explains what filters keep data accurate, how to measure Flash usage and tag for e-mail marketing, and what visitor segmentation provides the most useful feedback* Examines principles and practices of Web analytics, then shows how to use GA's reports and how to track dynamic Web pages, banners, outgoing links, and contact forms* Discusses advanced setups for configuring goals and filters, how to integrate GA with third-party systems, and how to leverage the new API Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics, Second Edition is valuable for both novice and experienced users of Google Analytics.
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• Introduction Motivation Shape recognition Proposed method Objectives Assumptions and input data Book organization
• Preliminary knowledge Statistics Probability Random variable Expected value Variance and deviation Covariance and correlation Moment-generating function Fourier transform Structural and syntactic pattern recognition Introduction Grammar-based passing method Graph-based matching methods Neural network Architecture Learning process Summary
• Review of shape recognition techniques 2D shape recognition Shape representation Shape recognition approaches Logo recognition Statistical approach Syntactic/structural approach Neural network Hybrid approach Polygonal approximation Indexing Matching Distance measure Hausdorff distance Summary
• System overview Preprocessing Polygonal approximation Indexing Matching
• Polygonal approximation Feature point detection overview Dynamic two-strip algorithm The proposed method Results Comparison with other methods Summary
• Logo indexing Normalization Indexing Reference angle indexing (filter 1) Line orientation indexing (filters 2 and 3) Experimental results Summary
• Logo matching Hausdorff distance Modified LHD (MLHD) Experimental results Matching results Degradation analysis Results analysis with respect to the LHD and the MHD Discussion and comparison with other methods Summary
• Applications Mobile visual search with GetFugu Using logo recognition for anti-phishing and Internet brand monitoring The LogoTrace library Real-time vehicle logo recognition Summary
• Conclusion Book summary Contribution Future work Book conclusion References
• Appendix Test images Appendix Results of feature point detection
• Index.
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Used by companies, organizations, and even individuals to promote recognition of their brand, logos can also act as a valuable means of identifying the source of a document. E-business applications can retrieve and catalog products according to their logos. Governmental agencies can easily inspect goods using smart mobile devices that use logo recognition techniques. However, because logos are two-dimensional shapes of varying complexity, the recognition process can be challenging. Although promising results have been found for clean logos, they have not been as robust for noisy logos. Logo Recognition: Theory and Practice is the first book to focus on logo recognition, especially under noisy conditions. Beginning with an introduction to fundamental concepts and methods in pattern and shape recognition, it surveys advances in logo recognition. The authors also propose a new logo recognition system that can be used under adverse conditions such as broken lines, added noise, and occlusion. The proposed system introduces a novel polygonal approximation, a robust indexing scheme, and a new line segment Hausdorff distance (LHD) matching method that can handle more distortion and transformation types than previous techniques. In the first stage, raw logos are transformed into normalized line segment maps. In the second stage, effective line pattern features are used to index the database to generate a moderate number of likely models. In the third stage, an improved LHD measure screens and generates the best matches. A comprehensive overview of logo recognition, the book also presents successful applications of the technology and suggests directions for future research.
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Extract patterns and knowledge from your data in easy way using MATLAB About This Book * Get your first steps into machine learning with the help of this easy-to-follow guide * Learn regression, clustering, classification, predictive analytics, artificial neural networks and more with MATLAB * Understand how your data works and identify hidden layers in the data with the power of machine learning. Who This Book Is For This book is for data analysts, data scientists, students, or anyone who is looking to get started with machine learning and want to build efficient data processing and predicting applications. A mathematical and statistical background will really help in following this book well. What You Will Learn * Learn the introductory concepts of machine learning. * Discover different ways to transform data using SAS XPORT, import and export tools, * Explore the different types of regression techniques such as simple & multiple linear regression, ordinary least squares estimation, correlations and how to apply them to your data. * Discover the basics of classification methods and how to implement Naive Bayes algorithm and Decision Trees in the Matlab environment. * Uncover how to use clustering methods like hierarchical clustering to grouping data using the similarity measures. * Know how to perform data fitting, pattern recognition, and clustering analysis with the help of MATLAB Neural Network Toolbox. * Learn feature selection and extraction for dimensionality reduction leading to improved performance. In Detail MATLAB is the language of choice for many researchers and mathematics experts for machine learning. This book will help you build a foundation in machine learning using MATLAB for beginners. You'll start by getting your system ready with t he MATLAB environment for machine learning and you'll see how to easily interact with the Matlab workspace. We'll then move on to data cleansing, mining and analyzing various data types in machine learning and you'll see how to display data values on a plot. Next, you'll get to know about the different types of regression techniques and how to apply them to your data using the MATLAB functions. You'll understand the basic concepts of neural networks and perform data fitting, pattern recognition, and clustering analysis. Finally, you'll explore feature selection and extraction techniques for dimensionality reduction for performance improvement. At the end of the book, you will learn to put it all together into real-world cases covering major machine learning algorithms and be comfortable in performing machine learning with MATLAB. Style and approach The book takes a very comprehensive approach to enhance your understanding of machine learning using MATLAB. Sufficient real-world examples and use cases are included in the book to help you grasp the concepts quickly and apply them easily in your day-to-day work.
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• Foreword
• 1. The Semantic Web
• 2. Web Knowledge
• 3. Reactive Agents
• 4. Practical Reasoning and Deductive Agents
• 5. Reasoning on the Web
• 6. Agent Communication
• 7. Semantic Web Services
• 8. Conclusions
• Index.
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This highly topical text considers the construction of the next generation of the Web, called the Semantic Web. This will enable computers to automatically consume Web-based information, overcoming the human-centric focus of the Web as it stands at present, and expediting the construction of a whole new class of knowledge-based applications that will intelligently utilise Web content. The text is structured into three main sections on knowledge representation techniques, reasoning with multi-agent systems, and knowledge services. For each of these topics, the text provides an overview of the state-of-the-art techniques and the popular standards that have been defined. Numerous small programming examples are given, which demonstrate how the benefits of the Semantic Web technologies can be realised at the present time. The main theoretical results underlying each of the technologies are presented, and the main problems and research issues which remain are summarised. Based on a course on 'Multi-Agent Systems and the Semantic Web' taught at the University of Edinburgh, this text is ideal for final-year undergraduate and graduate students in Mathematics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Logic and researchers interested in Multi-Agent Systems and the Semantic Web.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Clusters and robots
• 3. Cluster programming
• 4. Robot motion
• 5. Sensors
• 6. Mapping and localization
• 7. Vision and tracking
• 8. Learning landmarks
• 9. Robot architectures
• Appendix I: Summary of OpenMPI man page for mpirun
• Appendix II: MPI datatypes
• Appendix III: MPI reduction operations
• Appendix IV: MPI application programmer interface.

In this book, we look at how cluster technology can be leveraged to build better robots. Algorithms and approaches in key areas of robotics and computer vision, such as map building, target tracking, action selection and landmark learning, are reviewed and cluster implementations for these are presented.The objective of the book is to give professionals working in the beowulf cluster or robotics and computer vision fields a concrete view of the strong synergy between the areas as well as to spur further fruitful exploitation of this connection. The book is written at a level appropriate for an advanced undergraduate or graduate student. The key concepts in robotics, computer vision and cluster computing are introduced before being used to make the text useful to a wide audience in these fields.
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• Introduction, C.H. Chen
• combined neural-net/knowledge-based adaptive systems for large scale dynamic control, A.D.C. Holden and S.C. Suddarth
• a connectionist incremental expert system combining production systems and associative memory, H.F. Yin and P. Liang
• optimal hidden units for two-layer nonlinear feedforward networks, T.D. Sanger
• an incremental fine adjustment algorithm for the design of optimal interpolating networks, S.K. Sin and R.J.P. deFigueiredo
• on the asymptotic properties of recurrent neural networks for optimization, J. Wang
• a real-time image segmentation system using a connectionist classifier architecture, W.E. Blanz and S.L. Gish
• segmentation of ultrasonic images with neural network technology's on automatic active sonar classifier development, T.B. Haley
• on the relationships between statistical pattern recognition and artificial neural networks, C.H. Chen.
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The revitalization of neural network research in the past few years has already had a great impact on research and development in pattern recognition and artificial intelligence. Although neural network functions are not limited to pattern recognition, there is no doubt that a renewed progress in pattern recognition and its applications now critically depends on neural networks. This volume specially brings together outstanding original research papers in the area and aims to help the continued progress in pattern recognition and its applications.
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• Preface
• Special Topics in Pattern Recognition with Applications in Nonprofileration
• Manufacturing Feature Recognition for Mould & Die Designs: Current Status & Future Directions
• Pattern-Recognition Receptors of Oral Epithelia
• Generating-Kernel Based Nonlinear Feature Extraction Methods
• Damage Assessment Based on Pattern Recognition
• Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Assisting the Decision of Making or Postponing the Embryo Transfer
• New Perspectives on a Pattern Recognition Algorithm Based on Haken's Synergetic Computer Network- With a Comment on Artificial Intelligence & Physical Intelligence
• Active Contours for Real Time Applications
• Class Distribution Estimation in Imprecise Domains Based on Supervised Learning
• Quantitative Bioimage Analysis Using Pattern Recognition
• Advances in Mining Emerging Patterns for Supervised Classification
• On the Geometrical Aspect of Biometric Authentication
• Pattern Recognition as a New Method of Numerical Research of the Concrete Dynamic System
• Pattern Recognition from ICA Mixture Modeling
• Index.
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Pattern recognition involves tasks such as pattern identification, feature extraction from them and pattern classification in categories, based on the extracted features. This book presents topical research in the study of pattern recognition, including pattern recognition applications in non-proliferation; pattern recognition of machine feature identifications; pattern recognition receptors of oral epithelia; construction damage assessment based on pattern recognition; Haken's pattern recognition algorithm as applied in engineering sciences; active contours for real time applications and quantitative bioimage analysis using pattern recognition.
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• Title page; Preface; Contents; Part I: General Purpose Applications of AI; Supervised Machine Learning: A Review of Classification Techniques; Dimension Reduction and Data Visualization Using Neural Networks; Recommender System Technologies Based on Argumentation; Knowledge Modelling Using UML Profile for Knowledge-Based Systems Development; A Semantic-Based Navigation Approach for Information Retrieval in the Semantic Web; Ontology-Based Management of Pervasive Systems; A DIYD (Do It Yourself Design) e-Commerce System for Vehicle Design Based on Ontologies and 3D Visualization.

Provides insights on how computer engineers can implement artificial intelligence (AI) in real world applications. This book presents practical applications of AI.

• 1. The vision of sociable robots
• 2. Robot in society: a question of interface
• 3. Insights from developmental psychology
• 4. Designing sociable robots
• 5. The physical robot
• 6. The vision system
• 7. The auditory system
• 8. The motivation system
• 9. The behavior system
• 10. Facial animation and expression
• 11. Expressive vocalization system
• 12. Social constraints on animate vision
• 13. Grand challenges of building sociable robots.

Cynthia Breazeal here presents her vision of the sociable robot of the future, a synthetic creature and not merely a sophisticated tool. A sociable robot will be able to understand us, to communicate and interact with us, to learn from us and grow with us. It will be socially intelligent in a humanlike way. Eventually sociable robots will assist us in our daily lives, as collaborators and companions. Because the most successful sociable robots will share our social characteristics, the effort to make sociable robots is also a means for exploring human social intelligence and even what it means to be human. Breazeal defines the key components of social intelligence for these machines and offers a framework and set of design issues for their realization. Much of the book focuses on a nascent sociable robot she designed named Kismet. Breazeal offers a concrete implementation for Kismet, incorporating insights from the scientific study of animals and people, as well as from artistic disciplines such as classical animation. This blending of science, engineering, and art creates a lifelike quality that encourages people to treat Kismet as a social creature rather than just a machine. The book includes a CD-ROM that shows Kismet in action.
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• Cover; Title page; Preface; Contents;
• 1. Introduction to Neural Networks for Instrumentation, Measurement, and Industrial Applications;
• 2. The Fundamentals of Measurement Techniques;
• 3. Neural Networks in Intelligent Sensors and Measurement Systems for Industrial Applications;
• 4. Neural Networks in System Identification;
• 5. Neural Techniques in Control;
• 6. Neural Networks for Signal Processing in Measurement Analysis and Industrial Applications: the Case of Chaotic Signal Processing.

This work aims to disseminate theoretical and practical knowledge about neural networks in measurement, instrumentation and the related industrial applications. It also creates a consciousness about the effectiveness of these techniques as well as the measurement problems in industrial environments.

• pt. I. Technology. Robust layered control system for a mobile robot
• Robot that walks: emergent behaviors from a carefully evolved network
• Learning a distributed map representation based on navigation behaviors
• New approaches to robotics. pt. II. Philosophy. Intelligence without representation
• Planning is just a way of avoiding figuring out what to do next
• Elephants don't play chess
• Intelligence without reason.

Until the mid-1980s, AI researchers assumed that an intelligent system doing high-level reasoning was necessary for the coupling of perception and action. In this traditional model, cognition mediates between perception and plans of action. Realizing that this core AI, as it was known, was illusory, Rodney A. Brooks turned the field of AI on its head by introducing the behavior-based approach to robotics. The cornerstone of behavior-based robotics is the realization that the coupling of perception and action gives rise to all the power of intelligence and that cognition is only in the eye of an observer. Behavior-based robotics has been the basis of successful applications in entertainment, service industries, agriculture, mining, and the home. It has given rise to both autonomous mobile robots and more recent humanoid robots such as Brooks' Cog. This book represents Brooks' initial formulation of and contributions to the development of the behavior-based approach to robotics. It presents all of the key philosophical and technical ideas that put this "bottom-up" approach at the forefront of current research in not only AI but all of cognitive science.
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• PREFACE. NOTATION.
• 1 Introduction. 1.1 Learning and Statistical Estimation. 1.2 Statistical Dependency and Causality. 1.3 Characterization of Variables. 1.4 Characterization of Uncertainty. 1.5 Predictive Learning versus Other Data Analytical Methodologies.
• 2 Problem Statement, Classical Approaches, and Adaptive Learning. 2.1 Formulation of the Learning Problem. 2.1.1 Objective of Learning. 2.1.2 Common Learning Tasks. 2.1.3 Scope of the Learning Problem Formulation. 2.2 Classical Approaches. 2.2.1 Density Estimation. 2.2.2 Classification. 2.2.3 Regression. 2.2.4 Solving Problems with Finite Data. 2.2.5 Nonparametric Methods. 2.2.6 Stochastic Approximation. 2.3 Adaptive Learning: Concepts and Inductive Principles. 2.3.1 Philosophy, Major Concepts, and Issues. 2.3.2 A Priori Knowledge and Model Complexity. 2.3.3 Inductive Principles. 2.3.4 Alternative Learning Formulations. 2.4 Summary.
• 3 Regularization Framework. 3.1 Curse and Complexity of Dimensionality. 3.2 Function Approximation and Characterization of Complexity. 3.3 Penalization. 3.3.1 Parametric Penalties. 3.3.2 Nonparametric Penalties. 3.4 Model Selection (Complexity Control). 3.4.1 Analytical Model Selection Criteria. 3.4.2 Model Selection via Resampling. 3.4.3 Bias-Variance Tradeoff. 3.4.4 Example of Model Selection. 3.4.5 Function Approximation versus Predictive Learning. 3.5 Summary.
• 4 Statistical Learning Theory. 4.1 Conditions for Consistency and Convergence of ERM. 4.2 Growth Function and VC Dimension. 4.2.1 VC Dimension for Classification and Regression Problems. 4.2.2 Examples of Calculating VC Dimension. 4.3 Bounds on the Generalization. 4.3.1 Classification. 4.3.2 Regression. 4.3.3 Generalization Bounds and Sampling Theorem. 4.4 Structural Risk Minimization. 4.4.1 Dictionary Representation. 4.4.2 Feature Selection. 4.4.3 Penalization Formulation. 4.4.4 Input Preprocessing. 4.4.5 Initial Conditions for Training Algorithm. 4.5 Comparisons of Model Selection for Regression. 4.5.1 Model Selection for Linear Estimators. 4.5.2 Model Selection for k-Nearest-Neighbor Regression. 4.5.3 Model Selection for Linear Subset Regression. 4.5.4 Discussion. 4.6 Measuring the VC Dimension. 4.7 VC Dimension, Occam's Razor, and Popper's Falsifiability. 4.8 Summary and Discussion.
• 5 Nonlinear Optimization Strategies. 5.1 Stochastic Approximation Methods. 5.1.1 Linear Parameter Estimation. 5.1.2 Backpropagation Training of MLP Networks. 5.2 Iterative Methods. 5.2.1 EM Methods for Density Estimation. 5.2.2 Generalized Inverse Training of MLP Networks. 5.3 Greedy Optimization. 5.3.1 Neural Network Construction Algorithms. 5.3.2 Classification and Regression Trees. 5.4 Feature Selection, Optimization, and Statistical Learning Theory. 5.5 Summary.
• 6 Methods for Data Reduction and Dimensionality Reduction. 6.1 Vector Quantization and Clustering. 6.1.1 Optimal Source Coding in Vector Quantization. 6.1.2 Generalized Lloyd Algorithm. 6.1.3 Clustering. 6.1.4 EM Algorithm for VQ and Clustering. 6.1.5 Fuzzy Clustering. 6.2 Dimensionality Reduction: Statistical Methods. 6.2.1 Linear Principal Components. 6.2.2 Principal Curves and Surfaces. 6.2.3 Multidimensional Scaling. 6.3 Dimensionality Reduction: Neural Network Methods. 6.3.1 Discrete Principal Curves and Self-Organizing Map Algorithm. 6.3.2 Statistical Interpretation of the SOM Method. 6.3.3 Flow-Through Version of the SOM and Learning Rate Schedules. 6.3.4 SOM Applications and Modifications. 6.3.5 Self-Supervised MLP. 6.4 Methods for Multivariate Data Analysis. 6.4.1 Factor Analysis. 6.4.2 Independent Component Analysis. 6.5 Summary.
• 7 Methods for Regression. 7.1 Taxonomy: Dictionary versus Kernel Representation. 7.2 Linear Estimators. 7.2.1 Estimation of Linear Models and Equivalence of Representations. 7.2.2 Analytic Form of Cross-Validation. 7.2.3 Estimating Complexity of Penalized Linear Models. 7.2.4 Nonadaptive Methods. 7.3 Adaptive Dictionary Methods. 7.3.1 Additive Methods and Projection Pursuit Regression. 7.3.2 Multilayer Perceptrons and Backpropagation. 7.3.3 Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines. 7.3.4 Orthogonal Basis Functions and Wavelet Signal Denoising. 7.4 Adaptive Kernel Methods and Local Risk Minimization. 7.4.1 Generalized Memory-Based Learning. 7.4.2 Constrained Topological Mapping. 7.5 Empirical Studies. 7.5.1 Predicting Net Asset Value (NAV) of Mutual Funds. 7.5.2 Comparison of Adaptive Methods for Regression. 7.6 Combining Predictive Models. 7.7 Summary.
• 8 Classification. 8.1 Statistical Learning Theory Formulation. 8.2 Classical Formulation. 8.2.1 Statistical Decision Theory. 8.2.2 Fisher's Linear Discriminant Analysis. 8.3 Methods for Classification. 8.3.1 Regression-Based Methods. 8.3.2 Tree-Based Methods. 8.3.3 Nearest-Neighbor and Prototype Methods. 8.3.4 Empirical Comparisons. 8.4 Combining Methods and Boosting. 8.4.1 Boosting as an Additive Model. 8.4.2 Boosting for Regression Problems. 8.5 Summary.
• 9 Support Vector Machines. 9.1 Motivation for Margin-Based Loss. 9.2 Margin-Based Loss, Robustness, and Complexity Control. 9.3 Optimal Separating Hyperplane. 9.4 High-Dimensional Mapping and Inner Product Kernels. 9.5 Support Vector Machine for Classification. 9.6 Support Vector Implementations. 9.7 Support Vector Regression. 9.8 SVM Model Selection. 9.9 Support Vector Machines and Regularization. 9.10 Single-Class SVM and Novelty Detection. 9.11 Summary and Discussion.
• 10 Noninductive Inference and Alternative Learning Formulations. 10.1 Sparse High-Dimensional Data. 10.2 Transduction. 10.3 Inference Through Contradictions. 10.4 Multiple-Model Estimation. 10.5 Summary.
• 11 Concluding Remarks. Appendix A: Review of Nonlinear Optimization. Appendix B: Eigenvalues and Singular Value Decomposition. References. Index.
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An interdisciplinary framework for learning methodologies-covering statistics, neural networks, and fuzzy logic, this book provides a unified treatment of the principles and methods for learning dependencies from data. It establishes a general conceptual framework in which various learning methods from statistics, neural networks, and fuzzy logic can be applied-showing that a few fundamental principles underlie most new methods being proposed today in statistics, engineering, and computer science. Complete with over one hundred illustrations, case studies, and examples making this an invaluable text.
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• Low-level preprocessing, surveillance systems
• Tracking, robotics
• Identification, detection, recognition
• Behavior, activities, crowd analysis.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Chinese Conference, IVS 2016, held in Beijing, China, in October 2016. The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on low-level preprocessing, surveillance systems; tracking, robotics; identification, detection, recognition; behavior, activities, crowd analysis.

• Computer graphics.-Applications
• Visual Surveillance
• Virtual Reality.

The two volume set LNCS 10072 and LNCS 10073 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2016, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA in December 2016. The 102 revised full papers and 34 poster papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 220 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: Part I (LNCS 10072) comprises computational bioimaging; computer graphics; motion and tracking; segmentation; pattern recognition; visualization; 3D mapping; modeling and surface reconstruction; advancing autonomy for aerial robotics; medical imaging; virtual reality; computer vision as a service; visual perception and robotic systems; and biometrics. Part II (LNCS 9475): applications; visual surveillance; computer graphics; and virtual reality.