This work presents a procedure for the estimation of a two-mass vocal fold model starting from a time-varying target ow signal. The model is specied by a large number of physical parameters, computed as functions of four articulatory parameters (three laryngeal muscle activations and subglottal pressure). Flow waveforms synthesized by the model are characterized by means of a set of typical v...

This paper describes the use of a radial basis function (RBF) neural network. It approximates the process parameters for the extrusion of a rubber profile used in tyre production. After introducing the problem, we describe the RBF net algorithm and the modeling of the industrial problem. The algorithm shows good results even using only a few training samples. It turns out that the „curse of dim...

This paper proposes a novel computational intelligence technique, based on the sociological concept of human group formation, with the aim to acquire a better solution to classification problems. The key concept of the human group formation is about the behavior of in-group members that try to unite with their own group as much as possible, and at the same time maintain social distance from the...

A RBF network was used as an empirical modeling tool. Results on simulated processes show that such a network can learn the shape of the function reasonably well with very limited experimental data. The use of the RBF network model is also illustrated with real experimental data from a soil extraction process.

When faced with unpredictable environments, the human motor system has been shown to develop optimized adaptation strategies that allow for online adaptation during the control process. Such online adaptation is to be contrasted to slower over-trial learning that corresponds to a trial-by-trial update of the movement plan. Here we investigate the interplay of both processes, i.e., online adapta...

The design of radial basis function networks (RBF) is rather complex because of the great number of parameters that must be adjusted : positioning and number of kernels, choice of the distance type and centre widths, weight values. This article details these points in the framework of classification tasks with a partitioning approach : the global K-class problem is split into K 2-class sub-prob...

This paper describes a face recognition system that uses partial face images (for example, eye, nose, and ear images) for input data. The recognition technique is based on using Radial Basis Function (RBF) networks. As compared with using a standard backpropagation (BP) learning algorithm, the RBF networks are far superior for the face recognition task. From the experimental results of face rec...

This paper reports initial research on supporting Visually Mediated Interaction (VMI) by developing generic expression models and person-specific and generic gesture models for the control of active cameras. We investigate the recognition of both head pose and expression using simple generalisation of trained generic models using Radial Basis Function (RBF) networks. Then we go on to describe a...

Using radial basis function networks for function approximation tasks suffers from unavailable knowledge about an adequate network size. In this work, a measuring technique is proposed which can control the model complexity and is based on the correlation coefficient between two basis functions. Simulation results show good performance and, therefore, this technique can be integrated in the RBF...

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) have been applied to solve the classification of volatile organic compounds (VOC) data in some recent studies. SVMs provide good generalization performance in detection and classification of VOC data. However, in many applications involving VOC data, it is not unusual for additional data, which may include new classes, to become available over time, which then req...