Radial Basis Function (RBF) can be used for reconstruction of damaged images, filling gaps and for restoring missing data in images. Comparisons with standard method for image inpainting and experimental results are included and demonstrate the feasibility of the use of the RBF method for image processing applications.

An elliptical basis function (EBF) network is proposed in this study for the classification of remotely sensed images. Though similar in structure, the EBF network differs from the well-known radial basis function (RBF) network by incorporating full covariance matrices and uses the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm to estimate the basis functions. Since remotely sensed data often take on ...

Learning in radial basis function (RBF) networks is the topic of this paper. Particularly we address the problem of intialisation the centers and scaling parameters in RBF networks utilizing classiication tree algorithms. This method was introduced by Kubat in 1998. Algorithms for the calculation of the centers and scaling parameters in an RBF network are presented and numerical results for the...

The Radial Basis Function method (RBF) can be used not only for reconstruction of a surface from scattered data but for reconstruction of damaged images, filling gaps and for restoring missing data in images, too. The basic idea of reconstruction algorithm with RBF and very interesting results from reconstruction of images damaged by noise are presented. Feasibility of the RBF method for image ...

The paper presents a two-level learning method for radial basis function (RBF) networks. A regularized orthogonal least squares (ROLS) algorithm is employed at the lower level to construct RBF networks while the two key learning parameters, the regularization parameter and the RBF width, are optimized using a genetic algorithm (GA) at the upper level. Nonlinear time series modeling and predicti...

This paper proposes to incorporate full covariance matrices into the radial basis function (RBF) networks and to use the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm to estimate the basis function parameters. The resulting networks, referred to as elliptical basis function (EBF) networks, are evaluated through a series of text-independent speaker veriication experiments involving 258 speakers from a...

The concept of adaptive shape parameters (ASP) has been presented for solution of incompressible Navier Strokes equations using mesh-free local Radial Basis Functions (RBF). The aim is to avoid ill-conditioning of coefficient matrices of RBF weights and inaccuracies in RBF interpolation resulting from non-optimized shape of basis functions for the cases where data points (or nodes) are not dist...

This paper presents a novel technique which may be used to determine an appropriate threshold for interpreting the outputs of a trained Radial Basis Function (RBF) classifier. Results from two experiments demonstrate that this method can be used to improve the performance of RBF classifiers in practical applications.

In this contribution, one and two-stage neural networks methods for face recognition are presented. For two-stage systems, the Kohonen self-organizing map is used as a feature extractor and multiplayer perceptron (MLP) or radial basis function (RBF) network are used as classifiers. The results of such recognition are compared with face recognition using a one-stage multilayer perceptron and rad...