Opinto-opas 2005-2006

SGN-2806 NEURAL COMPUTATION, 5 cr
NEURAL COMPUTATION

Person responsible
Prof. Ari Visa

Lecturers
Ari Visa, Professor, room TF309, ari.visa@tut.fi

Lecture room and time
Per III: Monday 10 - 12, TB215
Per III: Wednesday 14 - 16, TB215

Implementation rounds
Implementation 1
  Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 Period 4 Period 5 Summer Language of instruction
Lecture - - 4 h/week - - - In English only
Exercise - - 2 h/week - - - In English only
Exam   In finnish and in english if asked
(Academic Calender 2005-2006)

Objectives
To give basic knowledge of neuro computing and to apply neuro computing to some application fields.

Contents
Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Learning processes       
2. Learning machines with a teacher  Multilayer Perceptrons
Radial-Basis Function Networks
Support Vector Machines
Committee Machines 
  
3. Learning machines without a teacher  Principal Component Analysis with Neural Networks
Self-Organizig Maps
Boltzmann Machine 
  
4. Nonlinear dynamical systems  Temporal Processing Using Feed Forward Network
Dynamically Driven Recurrent Network 
  

Requirements for completing the course
Final exam and attendance at the classroom exercises.

Assessment criteria
Exam and approx. 70% attendance at the exercises.

  • Used assessment scale is numeric (1-5)
  • Study material
    Type Name Author ISBN URL, edition, availablitity... Exam material Language
    Book "Neural Networks: a Comprehensive Foundation" Haykin, S.   2nd edition, Prentice-Hall Inc, 1999 Yes  English 

    Prerequisites
    Number Name Credits M/R
    MAT-31090 Matrix Algebra 1 5 Recommendable
    MAT-41120 Optimization Theory 1 5 Recommendable

    Other comments
    The course is intended to students who are close to graduation in the fields of signal processing, computer science or telecommunication. Lectures in English or in Finnish.

  • Partial passing of course must be in connection with the same round of implementation.
  • The course is suitable for postgraduate studies.
  • Correspondence of content
    8001703 Neural Computation

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    Last modified 28.11.2005
    Modified byKirsi Järnström