This project consists of two parts. The first part is a general review of the previous and current research on human face recognition, including initial motivation, approaches, major problems and solutions, etc. The second part propose a new method for learning of radial basis function (RBF) neural networks which is based on subtractive clustering algorithm(SCA) and its application to face reco...

In this paper a new technique for eliciting a fuzzy inference system (FIS) from data for nonlinear systems is proposed. The strategy is conducted in two phases: in the first one, subtractive clustering is applied to extract a set of fuzzy rules, in the second phase, the generated fuzzy rule base is refined and redundant rules are removed on the basis of an interpretability measure. Finally, cen...

In this paper, a novel method for facial representation called Spatially Confined Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (SFNMF) is presented. SFNMF aims to extract more spatially confined, parts-based representation from the NMF based representation by merely removing non-prominent region, and focalize on the salient feature. SFNMF derived a significant set of basis which allows a non-subtractive r...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Differential gene expression has been reported following the onset of focal stroke. To identify de novo expression of ischemia-induced genes, we applied subtractive cDNA library strategy to identify the genes that are selectively upregulated by focal stroke. METHODS Spontaneously hypertensive rats were subjected to permanent occlusion of the middle cerebral artery (MCAO...

Churn prediction is a useful tool to predict customer at churn risk. By accurate prediction of churners and non-churners, a company can use the limited marketing resource efficiently to target the churner customers in a retention marketing campaign. Accuracy is not the only important aspect in evaluating a churn prediction models. Churn prediction models should be both accurate and comprehensib...

BACKGROUND A successful metamorphosis from a planktonic larva to a settled polyp, which under favorable conditions will establish a future colony, is critical for the survival of corals. However, in contrast to the situation in other animals, e.g., frogs and insects, little is known about the molecular basis of coral metamorphosis. We have begun to redress this situation with previous microarra...

The notion of a subtractive category recently introduced by the author, is a pointed categorical counterpart of the notion of a subtractive variety of universal algebras in the sense of A. Ursini (recall that a variety is subtractive if its theory contains a constant 0 and a binary term s satisfying s(x, x) = 0 and s(x, 0) = x). Let us call a pointed regular category C normal if every regular e...

Answering a question by Honsell and Plotkin, we show that there are two equations between ⁄-terms, the so-called subtractive equations, consistent with ⁄-calculus but not satisfied in any partially ordered model with bottom element. We also relate the subtractive equations to the open problem of the order-incompleteness of ⁄-calculus. 1998 ACM Subject Classification F.4.1 Lambda calculus and re...

This study is a preliminary investigation towards the design of effective colour spaces and colour tools to allow users to quickly and accurately select a given colour in a digital-display environment. It has been shown that many non-expert users find the RGB colour space to be non-intuitive. The choice of colour space on various visual tasks has also been shown to be an important factor and th...