Ebook: Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2006: 16th International Conference, Athens, Greece, September 10-14, 2006. Proceedings, Part II

This book includes the proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2006) held on September 10-14, 2006 in Athens, Greece, with tutorials being presented on September 10, the main conference taking place during September 11-13 and accompanying workshops on perception, cognition and interaction held on September 14, 2006. The ICANN conference is organized annually by the European Neural Network Society in cooperation with the International Neural Network Society, the Japanese Neural Network Society and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. It is the premier European event covering all topics concerned with neural networks and related areas. The ICANN series of conferences was initiated in 1991 and soon became the major European gathering for experts in these fields. In 2006 the ICANN Conference was organized by the Intelligent Systems Laboratory and the Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Laboratory of the National Technical University of Athens in Athens, Greece. From 475 papers submitted to the conference, the International Program Committee selected, following a thorough peer-review process, 208 papers for publication and presentation to 21 regular and 10 special sessions. The quality of the papers received was in general very high; as a consequence, it was not possible to accept and include in the conference program many papers of good quality.

The two-volume set LNCS 4131 and LNCS 4132 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2006, held in Athens, Greece, in September 2006. The 208 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 475 submissions.

This is the second volume, containing 105 contributions related to neural networks, semantic web technologies and multimedia analysis, bridging the semantic gap in multimedia machine learning approaches, signal and time series processing, data analysis, pattern recognition, visual attention algorithms and architectures for perceptional understanding and video coding, vision and image processing, computational finance and economics, neural computing in energy engineering, applications to biomedicine and bioinformatics, applications to security and market analysis, as well as real world applications.

Volume I presents 103 papers, organized in topical sections on feature selection and dimension reduction for regression, learning algorithms, advances in neural network learning methods, ensemble learning, learning random neural networks and stochastic agents, hybrid archit

The two-volume set LNCS 4131 and LNCS 4132 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2006, held in Athens, Greece, in September 2006. The 208 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 475 submissions.

This is the second volume, containing 105 contributions related to neural networks, semantic web technologies and multimedia analysis, bridging the semantic gap in multimedia machine learning approaches, signal and time series processing, data analysis, pattern recognition, visual attention algorithms and architectures for perceptional understanding and video coding, vision and image processing, computational finance and economics, neural computing in energy engineering, applications to biomedicine and bioinformatics, applications to security and market analysis, as well as real world applications.

Volume I presents 103 papers, organized in topical sections on feature selection and dimension reduction for regression, learning algorithms, advances in neural network learning methods, ensemble learning, learning random neural networks and stochastic agents, hybrid archit
Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
The Core Method: Connectionist Model Generation....Pages 1-13
A Neural Scheme for Robust Detection of Transparent Logos in TV Programs....Pages 14-23
A Neural Network to Retrieve Images from Text Queries....Pages 24-34
Techniques for Still Image Scene Classification and Object Detection....Pages 35-44
Adaptation of Weighted Fuzzy Programs....Pages 45-54
Classified Ranking of Semantic Content Filtered Output Using Self-organizing Neural Networks....Pages 55-64
Classifier Fusion: Combination Methods For Semantic Indexing in Video Content....Pages 65-74
Retrieval of Multimedia Objects by Combining Semantic Information from Visual and Textual Descriptors....Pages 75-83
A Relevance Feedback Approach for Content Based Image Retrieval Using Gaussian Mixture Models....Pages 84-93
Video Representation and Retrieval Using Spatio-temporal Descriptors and Region Relations....Pages 94-103
Bridging the Syntactic and the Semantic Web Search....Pages 104-112
Content-Based Coin Retrieval Using Invariant Features and Self-organizing Maps....Pages 113-122
Learning Time-Series Similarity with a Neural Network by Combining Similarity Measures....Pages 123-132
Prediction Improvement via Smooth Component Analysis and Neural Network Mixing....Pages 133-140
Missing Value Estimation for DNA Microarrays with Mutliresolution Schemes....Pages 141-150
Applying REC Analysis to Ensembles of Sigma-Point Kalman Filters....Pages 151-160
Analysis of Fast Input Selection: Application in Time Series Prediction....Pages 161-170
A Linguistic Approach to a Human-Consistent Summarization of Time Series Using a SOM Learned with a LVQ-Type Algorithm....Pages 171-180
Long-Term Prediction of Time Series Using State-Space Models....Pages 181-190
Time Series Prediction Using Fuzzy Wavelet Neural Network Model....Pages 191-200
OFDM Channel Equalization Based on Radial Basis Function Networks....Pages 201-210
A Quasi-stochastic Gradient Algorithm for Variance-Dependent Component Analysis....Pages 211-220
Two ICA Algorithms Applied to BSS in Non-destructive Vibratory Tests....Pages 221-229
Reference-Based Extraction of Phase Synchronous Components....Pages 230-239
Analytic Solution of Hierarchical Variational Bayes in Linear Inverse Problem....Pages 240-249
Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Motor Imagery EEG Classification....Pages 250-259
Local Factor Analysis with Automatic Model Selection: A Comparative Study and Digits Recognition Application....Pages 260-269
Interpolating Support Information Granules....Pages 270-281
Feature Selection Based on Kernel Discriminant Analysis....Pages 282-291
Local Selection of Model Parameters in Probability Density Function Estimation....Pages 292-301
The Sphere-Concatenate Method for Gaussian Process Canonical Correlation Analysis....Pages 302-310
Theory of a Probabilistic-Dependence Measure of Dissimilarity Among Multiple Clusters....Pages 311-320
Kernel PCA as a Visualization Tools for Clusters Identifications....Pages 321-329
A Fast Fixed-Point Algorithm for Two-Class Discriminative Feature Extraction....Pages 330-339
Feature Extraction with Weighted Samples Based on Independent Component Analysis....Pages 340-349
Discriminant Analysis by a Neural Network with Mahalanobis Distance....Pages 350-360
Assessment of an Unsupervised Feature Selection Method for Generative Topographic Mapping....Pages 361-370
A Model Selection Method Based on Bound of Learning Coefficient....Pages 371-380
Sequential Learning with LS-SVM for Large-Scale Data Sets....Pages 381-390
A Nearest Features Classifier Using a Self-organizing Map for Memory Base Evaluation....Pages 391-400
A Multisensor Fusion System for the Detection of Plant Viruses by Combining Artificial Neural Networks....Pages 401-409
A Novel Connectionist-Oriented Feature Normalization Technique....Pages 410-416
An Evolutionary Approach to Automatic Kernel Construction....Pages 417-426
A Leave-K-Out Cross-Validation Scheme for Unsupervised Kernel Regression....Pages 427-436
Neural Network Clustering Based on Distances Between Objects....Pages 437-443
Rotation-Invariant Pattern Recognition: A Procedure Slightly Inspired on Olfactory System and Based on Kohonen Network....Pages 444-450
Pattern Classification Using Composite Features....Pages 451-460
Towards a Control Theory of Attention....Pages 461-470
Localization of Attended Multi-feature Stimuli: Tracing Back Feed-Forward Activation Using Localized Saliency Computations....Pages 471-480
An Attention Based Similarity Measure for Colour Images....Pages 481-487
Learning by Integrating Information Within and Across Fixations....Pages 488-497
Feature Conjunctions in Visual Search....Pages 498-507
A Biologically Motivated System for Unconstrained Online Learning of Visual Objects....Pages 508-517
Second-Order (Non-Fourier) Attention-Based Face Detection....Pages 518-527
Requirements for the Transmission of Streaming Video in Mobile Wireless Networks....Pages 528-537
Wavelet Based Estimation of Saliency Maps in Visual Attention Algorithms....Pages 538-547
Selective Tuning: Feature Binding Through Selective Attention....Pages 548-557
Rotation Invariant Recognition of Road Signs with Ensemble of 1-NN Neural Classifiers....Pages 558-567
Computer Aided Classification of Mammographic Tissue Using Independent Component Analysis and Support Vector Machines....Pages 568-577
Growing Neural Gas for Vision Tasks with Time Restrictions....Pages 578-586
A Fixed-Point Algorithm of Topographic ICA....Pages 587-594
Image Compression by Vector Quantization with Recurrent Discrete Networks....Pages 595-605
Feature Extraction Using Class-Augmented Principal Component Analysis (CA-PCA)....Pages 606-615
A Comparative Study of the Objectionable Video Classification Approaches Using Single and Group Frame Features....Pages 616-623
Human Facial Expression Recognition Using Hybrid Network of PCA and RBFN....Pages 624-633
Extracting Motion Primitives from Natural Handwriting Data....Pages 634-643
Including Metric Space Topology in Neural Networks Training by Ordering Patterns....Pages 644-653
A Technical Trading Indicator Based on Dynamical Consistent Neural Networks....Pages 654-663
Testing the Random Walk Hypothesis with Neural Networks....Pages 664-671
Financial Application of Neural Networks: Two Case Studies in Greece....Pages 672-681
Credit Risk Analysis Using a Reliability-Based Neural Network Ensemble Model....Pages 682-690
Competitive and Collaborative Mixtures of Experts for Financial Risk Analysis....Pages 691-700
Kernel Regression Based Short-Term Load Forecasting....Pages 701-708
Electricity Load Forecasting Using Self Organizing Maps....Pages 709-716
A Hybrid Neural Model in Long-Term Electrical Load Forecasting....Pages 717-725
Application of Radial Basis Function Networks for Wind Power Forecasting....Pages 726-735
The Application of Neural Networks to Electric Power Grid Simulation....Pages 736-745
Early Detection of Winding Faults in Windmill Generators Using Wavelet Transform and ANN Classification....Pages 746-756
Combining Artificial Neural Networks and Heuristic Rules in a Hybrid Intelligent Load Forecast System....Pages 757-766
New Phenemenon on Power Transformers and Fault Identification Using Artificial Neural Networks....Pages 767-776
Neural Network Based Algorithm for Radiation Dose Evaluation in Heterogeneous Environments....Pages 777-787
Exploring the Intrinsic Structure of Magnetic Resonance Spectra Tumor Data Based on Independent Component Analysis and Correlation Analysis....Pages 788-797
Fusing Biomedical Multi-modal Data for Exploratory Data Analysis....Pages 798-807
Semi-supervised Significance Score of Differential Gene Expressions....Pages 808-817
Semi Supervised Fuzzy Clustering Networks for Constrained Analysis of Time-Series Gene Expression Data....Pages 818-826
Evolutionary Optimization of Sequence Kernels for Detection of Bacterial Gene Starts....Pages 827-836
Tree-Dependent Components of Gene Expression Data for Clustering....Pages 837-846
A Neural Model in Anti-spam Systems....Pages 847-855
A Neural Model in Intrusion Detection Systems....Pages 856-862
Improved Kernel Based Intrusion Detection System....Pages 863-871
Testing the Fraud Detection Ability of Different User Profiles by Means of FF-NN Classifiers....Pages 872-883
Predicting User’s Movement with a Combination of Self-Organizing Map and Markov Model....Pages 884-893
Learning Manifolds in Forensic Data....Pages 894-903
A Comparison of Target Customers in Asian Online Game Markets: Marketing Applications of a Two-Level SOM....Pages 904-912
A Neural Network Approach to Study O3 and PM10 Concentration in Environmental Pollution....Pages 913-922
ROC Analysis as a Useful Tool for Performance Evaluation of Artificial Neural Networks....Pages 923-931
NewPR-Combining TFIDF with Pagerank....Pages 932-942
A Fast Algorithm for Words Reordering Based on Language Model....Pages 943-951
Phonetic Feature Discovery in Speech Using Snap-Drift Learning....Pages 952-962
A New Neuro-Dominance Rule for Single Machine Tardiness Problem with Unequal Release Dates....Pages 963-973
A Competitive Approach to Neural Device Modeling: Support Vector Machines....Pages 974-981
Non-destructive Testing for Assessing Structures by Using Soft-Computing....Pages 982-991
Neural Unit Element Application for in Use Microwave Circuitry....Pages 992-1001
An Artificial Neural Network Based Simulation Metamodeling Approach for Dual Resource Constrained Assembly Line....Pages 1002-1011
A Packet Routing Method Using Chaotic Neurodynamics for Complex Networks....Pages 1012-1021
Back Matter....Pages -

The two-volume set LNCS 4131 and LNCS 4132 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2006, held in Athens, Greece, in September 2006. The 208 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 475 submissions.

This is the second volume, containing 105 contributions related to neural networks, semantic web technologies and multimedia analysis, bridging the semantic gap in multimedia machine learning approaches, signal and time series processing, data analysis, pattern recognition, visual attention algorithms and architectures for perceptional understanding and video coding, vision and image processing, computational finance and economics, neural computing in energy engineering, applications to biomedicine and bioinformatics, applications to security and market analysis, as well as real world applications.

Volume I presents 103 papers, organized in topical sections on feature selection and dimension reduction for regression, learning algorithms, advances in neural network learning methods, ensemble learning, learning random neural networks and stochastic agents, hybrid archit
Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
The Core Method: Connectionist Model Generation....Pages 1-13
A Neural Scheme for Robust Detection of Transparent Logos in TV Programs....Pages 14-23
A Neural Network to Retrieve Images from Text Queries....Pages 24-34
Techniques for Still Image Scene Classification and Object Detection....Pages 35-44
Adaptation of Weighted Fuzzy Programs....Pages 45-54
Classified Ranking of Semantic Content Filtered Output Using Self-organizing Neural Networks....Pages 55-64
Classifier Fusion: Combination Methods For Semantic Indexing in Video Content....Pages 65-74
Retrieval of Multimedia Objects by Combining Semantic Information from Visual and Textual Descriptors....Pages 75-83
A Relevance Feedback Approach for Content Based Image Retrieval Using Gaussian Mixture Models....Pages 84-93
Video Representation and Retrieval Using Spatio-temporal Descriptors and Region Relations....Pages 94-103
Bridging the Syntactic and the Semantic Web Search....Pages 104-112
Content-Based Coin Retrieval Using Invariant Features and Self-organizing Maps....Pages 113-122
Learning Time-Series Similarity with a Neural Network by Combining Similarity Measures....Pages 123-132
Prediction Improvement via Smooth Component Analysis and Neural Network Mixing....Pages 133-140
Missing Value Estimation for DNA Microarrays with Mutliresolution Schemes....Pages 141-150
Applying REC Analysis to Ensembles of Sigma-Point Kalman Filters....Pages 151-160
Analysis of Fast Input Selection: Application in Time Series Prediction....Pages 161-170
A Linguistic Approach to a Human-Consistent Summarization of Time Series Using a SOM Learned with a LVQ-Type Algorithm....Pages 171-180
Long-Term Prediction of Time Series Using State-Space Models....Pages 181-190
Time Series Prediction Using Fuzzy Wavelet Neural Network Model....Pages 191-200
OFDM Channel Equalization Based on Radial Basis Function Networks....Pages 201-210
A Quasi-stochastic Gradient Algorithm for Variance-Dependent Component Analysis....Pages 211-220
Two ICA Algorithms Applied to BSS in Non-destructive Vibratory Tests....Pages 221-229
Reference-Based Extraction of Phase Synchronous Components....Pages 230-239
Analytic Solution of Hierarchical Variational Bayes in Linear Inverse Problem....Pages 240-249
Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Motor Imagery EEG Classification....Pages 250-259
Local Factor Analysis with Automatic Model Selection: A Comparative Study and Digits Recognition Application....Pages 260-269
Interpolating Support Information Granules....Pages 270-281
Feature Selection Based on Kernel Discriminant Analysis....Pages 282-291
Local Selection of Model Parameters in Probability Density Function Estimation....Pages 292-301
The Sphere-Concatenate Method for Gaussian Process Canonical Correlation Analysis....Pages 302-310
Theory of a Probabilistic-Dependence Measure of Dissimilarity Among Multiple Clusters....Pages 311-320
Kernel PCA as a Visualization Tools for Clusters Identifications....Pages 321-329
A Fast Fixed-Point Algorithm for Two-Class Discriminative Feature Extraction....Pages 330-339
Feature Extraction with Weighted Samples Based on Independent Component Analysis....Pages 340-349
Discriminant Analysis by a Neural Network with Mahalanobis Distance....Pages 350-360
Assessment of an Unsupervised Feature Selection Method for Generative Topographic Mapping....Pages 361-370
A Model Selection Method Based on Bound of Learning Coefficient....Pages 371-380
Sequential Learning with LS-SVM for Large-Scale Data Sets....Pages 381-390
A Nearest Features Classifier Using a Self-organizing Map for Memory Base Evaluation....Pages 391-400
A Multisensor Fusion System for the Detection of Plant Viruses by Combining Artificial Neural Networks....Pages 401-409
A Novel Connectionist-Oriented Feature Normalization Technique....Pages 410-416
An Evolutionary Approach to Automatic Kernel Construction....Pages 417-426
A Leave-K-Out Cross-Validation Scheme for Unsupervised Kernel Regression....Pages 427-436
Neural Network Clustering Based on Distances Between Objects....Pages 437-443
Rotation-Invariant Pattern Recognition: A Procedure Slightly Inspired on Olfactory System and Based on Kohonen Network....Pages 444-450
Pattern Classification Using Composite Features....Pages 451-460
Towards a Control Theory of Attention....Pages 461-470
Localization of Attended Multi-feature Stimuli: Tracing Back Feed-Forward Activation Using Localized Saliency Computations....Pages 471-480
An Attention Based Similarity Measure for Colour Images....Pages 481-487
Learning by Integrating Information Within and Across Fixations....Pages 488-497
Feature Conjunctions in Visual Search....Pages 498-507
A Biologically Motivated System for Unconstrained Online Learning of Visual Objects....Pages 508-517
Second-Order (Non-Fourier) Attention-Based Face Detection....Pages 518-527
Requirements for the Transmission of Streaming Video in Mobile Wireless Networks....Pages 528-537
Wavelet Based Estimation of Saliency Maps in Visual Attention Algorithms....Pages 538-547
Selective Tuning: Feature Binding Through Selective Attention....Pages 548-557
Rotation Invariant Recognition of Road Signs with Ensemble of 1-NN Neural Classifiers....Pages 558-567
Computer Aided Classification of Mammographic Tissue Using Independent Component Analysis and Support Vector Machines....Pages 568-577
Growing Neural Gas for Vision Tasks with Time Restrictions....Pages 578-586
A Fixed-Point Algorithm of Topographic ICA....Pages 587-594
Image Compression by Vector Quantization with Recurrent Discrete Networks....Pages 595-605
Feature Extraction Using Class-Augmented Principal Component Analysis (CA-PCA)....Pages 606-615
A Comparative Study of the Objectionable Video Classification Approaches Using Single and Group Frame Features....Pages 616-623
Human Facial Expression Recognition Using Hybrid Network of PCA and RBFN....Pages 624-633
Extracting Motion Primitives from Natural Handwriting Data....Pages 634-643
Including Metric Space Topology in Neural Networks Training by Ordering Patterns....Pages 644-653
A Technical Trading Indicator Based on Dynamical Consistent Neural Networks....Pages 654-663
Testing the Random Walk Hypothesis with Neural Networks....Pages 664-671
Financial Application of Neural Networks: Two Case Studies in Greece....Pages 672-681
Credit Risk Analysis Using a Reliability-Based Neural Network Ensemble Model....Pages 682-690
Competitive and Collaborative Mixtures of Experts for Financial Risk Analysis....Pages 691-700
Kernel Regression Based Short-Term Load Forecasting....Pages 701-708
Electricity Load Forecasting Using Self Organizing Maps....Pages 709-716
A Hybrid Neural Model in Long-Term Electrical Load Forecasting....Pages 717-725
Application of Radial Basis Function Networks for Wind Power Forecasting....Pages 726-735
The Application of Neural Networks to Electric Power Grid Simulation....Pages 736-745
Early Detection of Winding Faults in Windmill Generators Using Wavelet Transform and ANN Classification....Pages 746-756
Combining Artificial Neural Networks and Heuristic Rules in a Hybrid Intelligent Load Forecast System....Pages 757-766
New Phenemenon on Power Transformers and Fault Identification Using Artificial Neural Networks....Pages 767-776
Neural Network Based Algorithm for Radiation Dose Evaluation in Heterogeneous Environments....Pages 777-787
Exploring the Intrinsic Structure of Magnetic Resonance Spectra Tumor Data Based on Independent Component Analysis and Correlation Analysis....Pages 788-797
Fusing Biomedical Multi-modal Data for Exploratory Data Analysis....Pages 798-807
Semi-supervised Significance Score of Differential Gene Expressions....Pages 808-817
Semi Supervised Fuzzy Clustering Networks for Constrained Analysis of Time-Series Gene Expression Data....Pages 818-826
Evolutionary Optimization of Sequence Kernels for Detection of Bacterial Gene Starts....Pages 827-836
Tree-Dependent Components of Gene Expression Data for Clustering....Pages 837-846
A Neural Model in Anti-spam Systems....Pages 847-855
A Neural Model in Intrusion Detection Systems....Pages 856-862
Improved Kernel Based Intrusion Detection System....Pages 863-871
Testing the Fraud Detection Ability of Different User Profiles by Means of FF-NN Classifiers....Pages 872-883
Predicting User’s Movement with a Combination of Self-Organizing Map and Markov Model....Pages 884-893
Learning Manifolds in Forensic Data....Pages 894-903
A Comparison of Target Customers in Asian Online Game Markets: Marketing Applications of a Two-Level SOM....Pages 904-912
A Neural Network Approach to Study O3 and PM10 Concentration in Environmental Pollution....Pages 913-922
ROC Analysis as a Useful Tool for Performance Evaluation of Artificial Neural Networks....Pages 923-931
NewPR-Combining TFIDF with Pagerank....Pages 932-942
A Fast Algorithm for Words Reordering Based on Language Model....Pages 943-951
Phonetic Feature Discovery in Speech Using Snap-Drift Learning....Pages 952-962
A New Neuro-Dominance Rule for Single Machine Tardiness Problem with Unequal Release Dates....Pages 963-973
A Competitive Approach to Neural Device Modeling: Support Vector Machines....Pages 974-981
Non-destructive Testing for Assessing Structures by Using Soft-Computing....Pages 982-991
Neural Unit Element Application for in Use Microwave Circuitry....Pages 992-1001
An Artificial Neural Network Based Simulation Metamodeling Approach for Dual Resource Constrained Assembly Line....Pages 1002-1011
A Packet Routing Method Using Chaotic Neurodynamics for Complex Networks....Pages 1012-1021
Back Matter....Pages -
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