@article{0200578b7bc54803bc94d2d19d7fdc9c,
title = "Recognition of partially occluded and rotated images with a network of spiking neurons",
abstract = "In this paper, we introduce a novel system for recognition of partially occluded and rotated images. The system is based on a hierarchical network of integrate-and-fire spiking neurons with random synaptic connections and a novel organization process. The network generates integrated output sequences that are used for image classification. The proposed network is shown to provide satisfactory predictive performance given that the number of the recognition neurons and synaptic connections are adjusted to the size of the input image. Comparison of synaptic plasticity activity rule (SAPR) and spike timing dependant plasticity rules, which are used to learn connections between the spiking neurons, indicates that the former gives better results and thus the SAPR rule is used. Test results show that the proposed network performs better than a recognition system based on support vector machines.",
keywords = "Image recognition, partially occluded and rotated images, spiking neurons, synaptic plasticity rule",
author = "Shin, {Joo Heon} and David Smith and Waldemar Swiercz and Kevin Staley and Rickard, {J. Terry} and Javier Montero and Kurgan, {Lukasz A.} and Cios, {Krzysztof J.}",
note = "Funding Information: Manuscript received November 2, 2009; revised February 19, 2010; accepted April 20, 2010. Date of current version November 3, 2010. The work of K. J. Cios was supported by NIH, under Grant 1R01NS064675-01. J.-H. Shin is with the Department of Computer Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284 USA (e-mail: shinjh2@vcu.edu). D. Smith is with University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO 80204 USA (e-mail: dizzyd@dizzyd.com). W. Swiercz and K. Staley are with Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114 USA, and with Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 USA (e-mail: wswiercz@partners.org; kstaley@partners.org). J. T. Rickard is with Distributed Infinity, Inc., Larkspur, CO 80118 USA (e-mail: terry.rickard@gmail.com). J. Montero is with the Department of Statistics and Operational Research, Faculty of Mathematics, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid 28040, Spain (e-mail: monty@mat.ucm.es). L. Kurgan is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2M7, Canada (e-mail: lkur-gan@ece.ualberta.ca). K. J. Cios is with the Department of Computer Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284 USA, and with IITiS Polish Academy of Sciences, Gliwice 44-100, Poland (e-mail: kcios@vcu.edu). Color versions of one or more of the figures in this paper are available online at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TNN.2010.2050600",
year = "2010",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1109/TNN.2010.2050600",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "21",
pages = "1697--1709",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks",
issn = "1045-9227",
publisher = "IEEE Computational Intelligence Society",
number = "11",
}