This document describes my proposed PhD research and presents a review of my work done so far, as well as, an outline of the work to be done to finalise my dissertation. The goal of this research is to overcome limitations of highly complex robotic systems, especially in terms of autonomy and adaptation. Although robotics research has seen advances over the last decades robots are still not in ...

The Bayesian committee machine (BCM) is a novel approach to combining estimators that were trained on different data sets. Although the BCM can be applied to the combination of any kind of estimators, the main foci are gaussian process regression and related systems such as regularization networks and smoothing splines for which the degrees of freedom increase with the number of training data. ...

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We present theoretical investigations via the replica theory of the storage capacities of committee machines with a large numberM of hidden units and spherical weights. Difficulties arise in the solution of this problem in the limit of large M . In the case of overlapping receptive fields, as the number of patterns increases, both permutation symmetry and replica symmetry are broken, which lead...

Face recognition has been of interest to a growing number of researchers due to its applications on security. Within past years, there are numerous face recognition algorithms proposed by researchers. However, there is no unified framework for the integration. In this paper, we implement different existing well-known algorithms, Eigenface, Fisherface, Elastic Graph Matching (EGM), Support Vecto...

Mass appraisal is the systematic appraisal of groups of properties as of a given date using standardized procedures and statistical testing. Mass appraisal is commonly used to compute real estate tax. There are three traditional real estate valuationmethods: the sales comparison approach, incomeapproach, and the cost approach. Mass appraisal models are commonly based on the sales comparison app...

We study the storage capacity of a fully-connected committee machine with a large number K of hidden nodes. The storage capacity is obtained by analyzing the geometrical structure of the weight space related to the internal representation. By examining the asymptotic behavior of order parameters in the limit of large K, the storage capacity c is found to be proportional to K p ln K up to the le...