This paper introduces a novel method for human face recognition that employs a set of different kind of features from the face images with Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural network called the Hybrid N-Feature Neural Network (HNFNN) human face recognition system. The face image is projected in each appropriately selected transform methods in parallel. The output of the RBF classifiers are fused...

Oil spills represent one of the most destructing environmental disasters. Predicting the possibility of finding oil slicks in a certain area after an oil spill can be crucial in order to reduce the environmental risks. The system presented here forecasts the presence or not of oil slicks in a certain area of the open sea after an oil spill using Case-Based Reasoning methodology. CBR is a comput...

A novel method based on the local nonlinear mapping is presented in this research. The method is called Locally Linear Discriminate Embedding LLDE . LLDE preserves a local linear structure of a high-dimensional space and obtains a compact data representation as accurately as possible in embedding space low dimensional before recognition. For computational simplicity and fast processing, Radial ...

This paper presents a novel control method based on radial basis function networks (RBFNs) for chaotic dynamical systems. The proposed method first identifies the nonlinear part of the chaotic system off-line and then constructs a model-following controller using only the estimated system parameters. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme. Keywords—Chaos, nonli...

RBF approximations would appear to be very attractive for approximating spatial derivatives in numerical simulations of PDEs. RBFs allow arbitrarily scattered data, generalize easily to several space dimensions, and can be spectrally accurate. However, accuracy degradations near boundaries in many cases severely limit the utility of this approach. With that as motivation, this study aims at gai...

Forecasting road condition after maintenance can help in better road maintenance planning. As road administrations annually collect and store road-related data, data-driven methods can be used in determining forecasting models that result in improved accuracy. In this paper, we compare the prediction models identified by experts and currently used in road administration with simple data-driven ...

| This paper presents the Time Delay Radial Basis Function Network (TDRBF) for recognition of pho-nemes. The TDRBF combines features from Time Delay Neural Networks (TDNN) and Radial Basis Functions (RBF). The ability to detect acoustic features and their temporal relationship independent of position in time is inherited from TDNN. The use of RBFs leads to shorter training times and less parame...

In this paper, we investigate the decision making ability of a fully complex-valued radial basis function (FC-RBF) network in solving real-valued classification problems. The FC-RBF classifier is a single hidden layer fully complex-valued neural network with a nonlinear input layer, a nonlinear hidden layer, and a linear output layer. The neurons in the input layer of the classifier employ the ...

In order to determine the relative or absolute railway track and foundation deformation, ground-based laser scanning technology is utilised in this study to attain a precise 3D track reference. Located at the University of Nottingham’s Innovation Park, the newly built Nottingham Geospatial Building, where the Nottingham Geospatial Institute is based, has a roof laboratory that has unique testin...

Query expansion methods have been extensively studied in information retrieval. This paper proposes a query expansion method. The HQE method employs a combination of ontology-based collaborative filtering and neural networks to improve query expansion. In the HQE method, ontology-based collaborative filtering is used to analyze semantic relationships in order to find the similar users, and the ...