dc.contributor.convenor | Auckland University of Technology | |
dc.contributor.author | Thornton, John | |
dc.contributor.author | Faichney, Jolon | |
dc.contributor.author | Blumenstein, Michael | |
dc.contributor.author | Hine, Trevor | |
dc.contributor.editor | Wayne Wobcke, Mengjie Zhang | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-03T12:54:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-03T12:54:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
dc.date.modified | 2010-08-30T07:04:24Z | |
dc.identifier.refuri | www.ai08.org | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/978-3-540-89378-3_57 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/23558 | |
dc.description.abstract | In recent years, there has been a cross-fertilization of ideas between computational neuroscience models of the operation of the neo-cortex and artificial intelligence models of machine learning. Much of this work has focussed on the mammalian visual cortex, treating it as a hierarchically-structured pattern recognition machine that exploits statistical regularities in retinal input. It has further been proposed that the neocortex represents sensory information probabilistically, using some form of Bayesian inference to disambiguate noisy data. In the current paper, we focus on a particular model of the neocortex developed by Hawkins, known as hierarchical temporal memory (HTM). Our aim is to evaluate an important and recently implemented aspect of this model, namely its ability to represent temporal sequences of input within a hierarchically structured vector quantization algorithm. We test this temporal pooling feature of HTM on a benchmark of cursive hand-writing recognition problems and compare it to a current state-of-the-art support vector machine implementation. We also examine whether two pre-processing techniques can enhance the temporal pooling algorithm's performance. Our results show that a relatively simple temporal pooling approach can produce recognition rates that approach the current state-of-the-art without the need for extensive tuning of parameters. We also show that temporal pooling performance is surprisingly unaffected by the use of preprocessing techniques. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.description.publicationstatus | Yes | |
dc.format.extent | 30058 bytes | |
dc.format.extent | 171371 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Springer | |
dc.publisher.place | Heidelberg, Germany | |
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublication | N | |
dc.relation.ispartofconferencename | 21st Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence | |
dc.relation.ispartofconferencetitle | Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence | |
dc.relation.ispartofdatefrom | 2008-12-03 | |
dc.relation.ispartofdateto | 2008-12-05 | |
dc.relation.ispartoflocation | Auckland, New Zealand | |
dc.rights.retention | Y | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Pattern Recognition and Data Mining | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 080109 | |
dc.title | Character Recognition using Hierarchical Vector Quantization and Temporal Pooling | |
dc.type | Conference output | |
dc.type.description | E1 - Conferences | |
dc.type.code | E - Conference Publications | |
gro.faculty | Griffith Sciences, School of Information and Communication Technology | |
gro.rights.copyright | © 2008 Springer. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com | |
gro.date.issued | 2008 | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Thornton, John R. | |
gro.griffith.author | Faichney, Jolon B. | |
gro.griffith.author | Blumenstein, Michael M. | |
gro.griffith.author | Hine, Trevor J. | |