Free-form curve design by neural networks.

This paper gives a new approach of the two dimensional scattered data manipulation. The standard approximation and interpolation methods which can only be used for non-scattered data will also be applicable for scattered input with the help of the neural network. The Kohonen network produces an ordering of the scattered input points and here the B-spline curve is used for the approximation and interpolation

Associative neural networks: properties, learning, and applications.

by Chi-sing Leung.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 236-244).Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter 1.1 --- Background of Associative Neural Networks --- p.1Chapter 1.2 --- A Distributed Encoding Model: Bidirectional Associative Memory --- p.3Chapter 1.3 --- A Direct Encoding Model: Kohonen Map --- p.6Chapter 1.4 --- Scope and Organization --- p.9Chapter 1.5 --- Summary of Publications --- p.13Chapter I --- Bidirectional Associative Memory: Statistical Proper- ties and Learning --- p.17Chapter 2 --- Introduction to Bidirectional Associative Memory --- p.18Chapter 2.1 --- Bidirectional Associative Memory and its Encoding Method --- p.18Chapter 2.2 --- Recall Process of BAM --- p.20Chapter 2.3 --- Stability of BAM --- p.22Chapter 2.4 --- Memory Capacity of BAM --- p.24Chapter 2.5 --- Error Correction Capability of BAM --- p.28Chapter 2.6 --- Chapter Summary --- p.29Chapter 3 --- Memory Capacity and Statistical Dynamics of First Order BAM --- p.31Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.31Chapter 3.2 --- Existence of Energy Barrier --- p.34Chapter 3.3 --- Memory Capacity from Energy Barrier --- p.44Chapter 3.4 --- Confidence Dynamics --- p.49Chapter 3.5 --- Numerical Results from the Dynamics --- p.63Chapter 3.6 --- Chapter Summary --- p.68Chapter 4 --- Stability and Statistical Dynamics of Second order BAM --- p.70Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.70Chapter 4.2 --- Second order BAM and its Stability --- p.71Chapter 4.3 --- Confidence Dynamics of Second Order BAM --- p.75Chapter 4.4 --- Numerical Results --- p.82Chapter 4.5 --- Extension to higher order BAM --- p.90Chapter 4.6 --- Verification of the conditions of Newman's Lemma --- p.94Chapter 4.7 --- Chapter Summary --- p.95Chapter 5 --- Enhancement of BAM --- p.97Chapter 5.1 --- Background --- p.97Chapter 5.2 --- Review on Modifications of BAM --- p.101Chapter 5.2.1 --- Change of the encoding method --- p.101Chapter 5.2.2 --- Change of the topology --- p.105Chapter 5.3 --- Householder Encoding Algorithm --- p.107Chapter 5.3.1 --- Construction from Householder Transforms --- p.107Chapter 5.3.2 --- Construction from iterative method --- p.109Chapter 5.3.3 --- Remarks on HCA --- p.111Chapter 5.4 --- Enhanced Householder Encoding Algorithm --- p.112Chapter 5.4.1 --- Construction of EHCA --- p.112Chapter 5.4.2 --- Remarks on EHCA --- p.114Chapter 5.5 --- Bidirectional Learning --- p.115Chapter 5.5.1 --- Construction of BL --- p.115Chapter 5.5.2 --- The Convergence of BL and the memory capacity of BL --- p.116Chapter 5.5.3 --- Remarks on BL --- p.120Chapter 5.6 --- Adaptive Ho-Kashyap Bidirectional Learning --- p.121Chapter 5.6.1 --- Construction of AHKBL --- p.121Chapter 5.6.2 --- Convergent Conditions for AHKBL --- p.124Chapter 5.6.3 --- Remarks on AHKBL --- p.125Chapter 5.7 --- Computer Simulations --- p.126Chapter 5.7.1 --- Memory Capacity --- p.126Chapter 5.7.2 --- Error Correction Capability --- p.130Chapter 5.7.3 --- Learning Speed --- p.157Chapter 5.8 --- Chapter Summary --- p.158Chapter 6 --- BAM under Forgetting Learning --- p.160Chapter 6.1 --- Introduction --- p.160Chapter 6.2 --- Properties of Forgetting Learning --- p.162Chapter 6.3 --- Computer Simulations --- p.168Chapter 6.4 --- Chapter Summary --- p.168Chapter II --- Kohonen Map: Applications in Data compression and Communications --- p.170Chapter 7 --- Introduction to Vector Quantization and Kohonen Map --- p.171Chapter 7.1 --- Background on Vector quantization --- p.171Chapter 7.2 --- Introduction to LBG algorithm --- p.173Chapter 7.3 --- Introduction to Kohonen Map --- p.174Chapter 7.4 --- Chapter Summary --- p.179Chapter 8 --- Applications of Kohonen Map in Data Compression and Communi- cations --- p.181Chapter 8.1 --- Use Kohonen Map to design Trellis Coded Vector Quantizer --- p.182Chapter 8.1.1 --- Trellis Coded Vector Quantizer --- p.182Chapter 8.1.2 --- Trellis Coded Kohonen Map --- p.188Chapter 8.1.3 --- Computer Simulations --- p.191Chapter 8.2 --- Kohonen MapiCombined Vector Quantization and Modulation --- p.195Chapter 8.2.1 --- Impulsive Noise in the received data --- p.195Chapter 8.2.2 --- Combined Kohonen Map and Modulation --- p.198Chapter 8.2.3 --- Computer Simulations --- p.200Chapter 8.3 --- Error Control Scheme for the Transmission of Vector Quantized Data --- p.213Chapter 8.3.1 --- Motivation and Background --- p.214Chapter 8.3.2 --- Trellis Coded Modulation --- p.216Chapter 8.3.3 --- "Combined Vector Quantization, Error Control, and Modulation" --- p.220Chapter 8.3.4 --- Computer Simulations --- p.223Chapter 8.4 --- Chapter Summary --- p.226Chapter 9 --- Conclusion --- p.232Bibliography --- p.23

Kohonen's algorithm for the numerical parametrisation of manifolds

T. Kohonen has described an algorithm for fitting a k-dimensional grid of points to a set of points taken from a k-manifold in Rn, for k⩽n. The algorithm is inspired by a neural model and bears some of the marks of its ancestry. In this paper we show that if the process converges, it converges to a locally 1-1 mapping of the grid onto the manifold. Hitherto this result has only been proved for the case where k=1