Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms : 8th International Conference, ICANNGA 2007, Warsaw, Poland, April 11-14, 2007, Proceedings, Part II

Neural Networks.- Evolution of Multi-class Single Layer Perceptron.- Estimates of Approximation Rates by Gaussian Radial-Basis Functions.- Least Mean Square vs. Outer Bounding Ellipsoid Algorithm in Confidence Estimation of the GMDH Neural Networks.- On Feature Extraction Capabilities of Fast Orthogonal Neural Networks.- Neural Computations by Asymmetric Networks with Nonlinearities.- Properties of the Hermite Activation Functions in a Neural Approximation Scheme.- Study of the Influence of Noise in the Values of a Median Associative Memory.- Impact of Learning on the Structural Properties of Neural Networks.- Learning Using a Self-building Associative Frequent Network.- Proposal of a New Conception of an Elastic Neural Network and Its Application to the Solution of a Two-Dimensional Travelling Salesman Problem.- Robust Stability Analysis for Delayed BAM Neural Networks.- A Study into the Improvement of Binary Hopfield Networks for Map Coloring.- Automatic Diagnosis of the Footprint Pathologies Based on Neural Networks.- Mining Data from a Metallurgical Process by a Novel Neural Network Pruning Method.- Dynamic Ridge Polynomial Neural Networks in Exchange Rates Time Series Forecasting.- Neural Systems for Short-Term Forecasting of Electric Power Load.- Jet Engine Turbine and Compressor Characteristics Approximation by Means of Artificial Neural Networks.- Speech Enhancement System Based on Auditory System and Time-Delay Neural Network.- Recognition of Patterns Without Feature Extraction by GRNN.- Real-Time String Filtering of Large Databases Implemented Via a Combination of Artificial Neural Networks.- Parallel Realizations of the SAMANN Algorithm.- A POD-Based Center Selection for RBF Neural Network in Time Series Prediction Problems.- Support Vector Machines.- Support, Relevance and Spectral Learning for Time Series.- Support Vector Machine Detection of Peer-to-Peer Traffic in High-Performance Routers with Packet Sampling.- Improving SVM Performance Using a Linear Combination of Kernels.- Boosting RVM Classifiers for Large Data Sets.- Multi-class Support Vector Machines Based on Arranged Decision Graphs and Particle Swarm Optimization for Model Selection.- Applying Dynamic Fuzzy Model in Combination with Support Vector Machine to Explore Stock Market Dynamism.- Predicting Mechanical Properties of Rubber Compounds with Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines.- An Evolutionary Programming Based SVM Ensemble Model for Corporate Failure Prediction.- Biomedical Signal and Image Processing.- Novel Multi-layer Non-negative Tensor Factorization with Sparsity Constraints.- A Real-Time Adaptive Wavelet Transform-Based QRS Complex Detector.- Nucleus Classification and Recognition of Uterine Cervical Pap-Smears Using FCM Clustering Algorithm.- Rib Suppression for Enhancing Frontal Chest Radiographs Using Independent Component Analysis.- A Novel Hand-Based Personal Identification Approach.- White Blood Cell Automatic Counting System Based on Support Vector Machine.- Kernels for Chemical Compounds in Biological Screening.- A Hybrid Automated Detection System Based on Least Square Support Vector Machine Classifier and k-NN Based Weighted Pre-processing for Diagnosing of Macular Disease.- Analysis of Microscopic Mast Cell Images Based on Network of Synchronised Oscillators.- Detection of Gene Expressions in Microarrays by Applying Iteratively Elastic Neural Net.- A New Feature Selection Method for Improving the Precision of Diagnosing Abnormal Protein Sequences by Support Vector Machine and Vectorization Method.- Epileptic Seizure Prediction Using Lyapunov Exponents and Support Vector Machine.- Classification of Pathological and Normal Voice Based on Linear Discriminant Analysis.- Efficient 1D and 2D Daubechies Wavelet Transforms with Application to Signal Processing.- A Branch and Bound Algorithm for Matching Protein Structures.- Biometrics.- Multimodal Hand-Palm Biometrics.- A Study on Iris Feature Watermarking on Face Data.- Keystroke Dynamics for Biometrics Identification.- Protecting Secret Keys with Fuzzy Fingerprint Vault Based on a 3D Geometric Hash Table.- Face Recognition Based on Near-Infrared Light Using Mobile Phone.- NEU-FACES: A Neural Network-Based Face Image Analysis System.- GA-Based Iris/Sclera Boundary Detection for Biometric Iris Identification.- Neural Network Based Recognition by Using Genetic Algorithm for Feature Selection of Enhanced Fingerprints.- Computer Vision.- Why Automatic Understanding?.- Automatic Target Recognition in SAR Images Based on a SVM Classification Scheme.- Adaptive Mosaicing: Principle and Application to the Mosaicing of Large Image Data Sets.- Circular Road Signs Recognition with Affine Moment Invariants and the Probabilistic Neural Classifier.- A Context-Driven Bayesian Classification Method for Eye Location.- Computer-Aided Vision System for Surface Blemish Detection of LED Chips.- Detection of Various Defects in TFT-LCD Polarizing Film.- Dimensionality Problem in the Visualization of Correlation-Based Data.- A Segmentation Method for Digital Images Based on Cluster Analysis.- Active Shape Models and Evolution Strategies to Automatic Face Morphing.- Recognition of Shipping Container Identifiers Using ART2-Based Quantization and a Refined RBF Network.- A Local-Information-Based Blind Image Restoration Algorithm Using a MLP.- Reflective Symmetry Detection Based on Parallel Projection.- Detail-Preserving Regularization Based Removal of Impulse Noise from Highly Corrupted Images.- Fast Algorithm for Order Independent Binary Homotopic Thinning.- A Perturbation Suppressing Segmentation Technique Based on Adaptive Diffusion.- Weighted Order Statistic Filters for Pattern Detection.- Real-Time Image Segmentation for Visual Servoing.- Control and Robotics.- A Neural Framework for Robot Motor Learning Based on Memory Consolidation.- Progressive Optimisation of Organised Colonies of Ants for Robot Navigation: An Inspiration from Nature.- An Algorithm for Selecting a Group Leader in Mobile Robots Realized by Mobile Ad Hoc Networks and Object Entropy.- Robot Path Planning in Kernel Space.- A Path Finding Via VRML and VISION Overlay for Autonomous Robot.- Neural Network Control for Visual Guidance System of Mobile Robot.- Cone-Realizations of Discrete-Time Systems with Delays.- Global Stability of Neural Networks with Time-Varying Delays.- A Sensorless Initial Rotor Position Sensing Using Neural Network for Direct Torque Controlled Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Drive.- Postural Control of Two-Stage Inverted Pendulum Using Reinforcement Learning and Self-organizing Map.- Neural Network Mapping of Magnet Based Position Sensing System for Autonomous Robotic Vehicle.- Application of Fuzzy Integral Control for Output Regulation of Asymmetric Half-Bridge DC/DC Converter.- Obtaining an Optimum PID Controller Via Adaptive Tabu Search.