IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Nov 1, 2016
In this paper, we present a deep regression approach for face alignment. The deep regressor is a neural network that consists of a global layer and multistage local layers. The global layer estimates the initial face shape from the whole image, while...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Sep 27, 2016
Passenger profiling plays a vital part of commercial aviation security, but classical methods become very inefficient in handling the rapidly increasing amounts of electronic records. This paper proposes a deep learning approach to passenger profilin...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Sep 27, 2016
Cluster validation, which is the process of evaluating the quality of clustering results, plays an important role for practical machine learning systems. Categorical sequences, such as biological sequences in computational biology, have become common...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Sep 13, 2016
Data encoded as symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices frequently arise in many areas of computer vision and machine learning. While these matrices form an open subset of the Euclidean space of symmetric matrices, viewing them through the lens of...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Jun 24, 2016
In this paper, we have introduced a general modeling approach for dynamic nonlinear systems that utilizes a variant of the simulated annealing algorithm for training the Laguerre-Volterra network (LVN) to overcome the local minima and convergence pro...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Apr 22, 2016
Feature selection (FS) is an important component of many pattern recognition tasks. In these tasks, one is often confronted with very high-dimensional data. FS algorithms are designed to identify the relevant feature subset from the original features...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Apr 14, 2016
Jensen-type [Jensen-Shannon (JS) and Jensen-Tsallis] kernels were first proposed by Martins et al. (2009). These kernels are based on JS divergences that originated in the information theory. In this paper, we extend the Jensen-type kernels on probab...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Feb 24, 2016
Understanding the progression of chronic diseases can empower the sufferers in taking proactive care. To predict the disease status in the future time points, various machine learning approaches have been proposed. However, a few of them jointly cons...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Jan 26, 2016
This paper describes the learning and control capabilities of a biologically constrained bottom-up model of the mammalian cerebellum. Results are presented from six tasks: 1) eyelid conditioning; 2) pendulum balancing; 3) proportional-integral-deriva...
IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems
Jan 21, 2016
This paper considers cooperative kinematic control of multiple manipulators using distributed recurrent neural networks and provides a tractable way to extend existing results on individual manipulator control using recurrent neural networks to the s...