This book provides a complete study on neural structures exhibiting nonlinear and stochastic dynamics, elaborating on neural dynamics by introducing advanced models of neural networks. It overviews the main findings in the modelling of neural dynamics in terms of electrical circuits and examines their stability properties with the use of dynamical systems theory. It is suitable for researchers and postgraduate students engaged with neural networks and dynamical systems theory.

This book explores the intuitive appeal of neural networks and the genetic algorithm in finance. It demonstrates how neural networks used in combination with evolutionary computation outperform classical econometric methods for accuracy in forecasting, classification and dimensionality reduction. McNelis utilizes a variety of examples, from forecasting automobile production and corporate bond spread, to inflation and deflation processes in Hong Kong and Japan, to credit card default in Germany to bank failures in Texas, to cap-floor volatilities in New York and Hong Kong. * Offers a balanced, critical review of the neural network methods and genetic algorithms used in finance * Includes numerous examples and applications * Numerical illustrations use MATLAB code and the book is accompanied by a website

Neural networks are a computing paradigm that is finding increasing attention among computer scientists. In this book, theoretical laws and models previously scattered in the literature are brought together into a general theory of artificial neural nets. Always with a view to biology and starting with the simplest nets, it is shown how the properties of models change when more general computing elements and net topologies are introduced. Each chapter contains examples, numerous illustrations, and a bibliography. The book is aimed at readers who seek an overview of the field or who wish to deepen their knowledge. It is suitable as a basis for university courses in neurocomputing.

Statistical pattern recognition; Probability density estimation; Single-layer networks; The multi-layer perceptron; Radial basis functions; Error functions; Parameter optimization algorithms; Pre-processing and feature extraction; Learning and generalization; Bayesian techniques; Appendix; References; Index.

Neuronale Netze haben sich in vielen Bereichen der Informatik und künstlichen Intelligenz, der Robotik, Prozeßsteuerung und Entscheidungsfindung bewährt. Um solche Netze für immer komplexere Aufgaben entwickeln zu können, benötigen Sie solide Kenntnisse der Theorie statischer und dynamischer neuronaler Netze. Aneignen können Sie sie sich mit diesem Lehrbuch! Alle theoretischen Konzepte sind in anschaulicher Weise mit praktischen Anwendungen verknüpft. Am Ende jedes Kapitels können Sie Ihren Wissensstand anhand von Übungsaufgaben überprüfen.

One stop guide to implementing award-winning, and cutting-edge CNN architectures Key Features Fast-paced guide with use cases and real-world examples to get well versed with CNN techniques Implement CNN models on image classification, transfer learning, Object Detection, Instance Segmentation, GANs and more Implement powerful use-cases like image captioning, reinforcement learning for hard attention, and recurrent attention models Book Description Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is revolutionizing several application domains such as visual recognition systems, self-driving cars, medical discoveries, innovative eCommerce and more.You will learn to create innovative solutions around image and video analytics to solve complex machine learning and computer vision related problems and implement real-life CNN models. This book starts with an overview of deep neural networkswith the example of image classification and walks you through building your first CNN for human face detector. We will learn to use concepts like transfer learning with CNN, and Auto-Encoders to build very powerful models, even when not much of supervised training data of labeled images is available. Later we build upon the learning achieved to build advanced vision related algorithms for object detection, instance segmentation, generative adversarial networks, image captioning, attention mechanisms for vision, and recurrent models for vision. By the end of this book, you should be ready to implement advanced, effective and efficient CNN models at your professional project or personal initiatives by working on complex image and video datasets. What you will learn From CNN basic building blocks to advanced concepts understand practical areas they can be applied to Build an image classifier CNN model to understand how different components interact with each other, and then learn how to optimize it Learn different algorithms that can be applied to Object Detection, and Instance Segmentation Learn advanced concepts like attention mechanisms for CNN to improve prediction accuracy Understand transfer learning and implement award-winning CNN architectures like AlexNet, VGG, GoogLeNet, ResNet and more Understand the working of generative adversarial networks and how it can create new, unseen images Who this book is for This book is for data scientists, machine learning and deep learning practitioners, Cognitive and Artificial Intelligence enthusiasts who want to move one step further in building Convolutional Neural Networks. Get hands-on experience with extreme datasets and different CNN architectures to build efficient and smart ConvNet models. Basic knowledge of deep learning concepts and Python programming language is expected.

This is one of the first books to offer practical in-depth coverage of the Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) and several other neural nets and their related algorithms critical to solving some of today's toughest real-world computing problems. Includes complete C++ source code for basic and advanced applications.