We present a mixture of experts (ME) approach to interpolate sparse, spatially correlated earth-science data. Kriging is an interpolation method which uses a global covariation model estimated from the data to take account of the spatial dependence in the data. Based on the close relationship between kriging and the radial basis function (RBF) network (Wan & Bone, 1996), we use a mixture of gen...

This paper presents a new cooperative-coevolutive algorithm for the design of Radial Basis Function Networks (RBFNs) for classification problems. The algorithm promotes a coevolutive environment where each individual represents a radial basis function (RBF) and the entire population is responsible for the final solution. As credit assignment three quality factors are considered which measure th...

We present the weighted minimum variance distortionless response (WMVDR), which is a steered response power (SRP) algorithm, for near-field speaker localization in a reverberant environment. The proposed WMVDR is based on a machine learning approach for computing the incoherent frequency fusion of narrowband power maps. We adopt a radial basis function network (RBFN) classifier for the estimati...

The circuit-field coupled model is very accurate but it is computationally inefficient in studying the output performance of brushless dc motors. In order to resolve the problem, an estimation strategy based on an integrated radial basis function (RBF) network is proposed in this paper. The strategy introduces new conceptions of the network group that are being realized by three steps, namely: ...

An important research issue in RBF networks is how to determine the ganssian centers of the radial-basis functions. We investigate a technique that identifies these centers with carefully selected training examples, with the objective to minimize the network’s size. The essence is to select three very small subsets rather than one larger subset whose size would exceed the size of the three smal...

Electromagnetic articulograph (EMA) provides movement data of sensors attached to a few flesh points on different speech articulators including lips, jaw, and tongue while a subject speaks. In this work, we quantify the amount of information these flesh points provide about the vocal tract (VT) shape in the mid-sagittal plane. VT shape is described by the air-tissue boundaries, which are obtain...

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...

Bayesian methods have been successfully applied to regression and classification problems in multi-layer perceptrons. We present a novel application of Bayesian techniques to Radial Basis Function networks by developing a Gaussian approximation to the posterior distribution which, for fixed basis function widths, is analytic in the parameters. The setting of regularization constants by crossval...

In this paper we use a genetic algorithm (GA) for selecting the initial seed points (prototypes, kernels) for a Radial Basis Function (RBF) classifier. The chromosome is directly mapped onto the training set and represents a subset: it contains 1 at the ith position if the ith element of the set is included, and 0, otherwise. Thus the GA serves a condensing technique that can hopefully lead to ...

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...