Mr. W. H. B. Cameron

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Karl Popper discussed admirably the choice between faith and reason [Popper, 1945, Ch. 24]. He admitted that the basis of rationalism is a faith of sorts, a faith in reason. Later on his disciple William W. Bartley dissented from him [Bartley, 1962] and even called him a fideist [Radnitzky and Bartley, 1987, 205, 208, 210-11], much to his annoyance. All this caused bad blood between the two [La...

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In this paper, we present a deep neural network (DNN)-based acoustic scene classification framework. Two hierarchical learning methods are proposed to improve the DNN baseline performance by incorporating the hierarchical taxonomy information of environmental sounds. Firstly, the parameters of the DNN are initialized by the proposed hierarchical pre-training. Multi-level objective function is t...

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A modiication to neural network training algorithms is proposed which decorrelates certain weights within the network while minimising the mean squared error. The technique was developed to facilitate neural network interpretation in image processing problems, partly by allowing to initialise all network weights with one xed, low value. However, it can also be applied to classiica-tion tasks in...

Dr W. H. Hylton

Dr William H. Hylton, formerly a general practitioner in Clevedon died suddenly on March 20th at the age of 83. William Hawkins Hylton?Bill, was born in Leeds in 1906. He was educated at Bridlington College. His father ran a building firm but died tragically of acute appendicitis when his son was aged 14. Bill intending to pursue the same career entered Leeds University and took a degree in eng...

The Late Mr. John W. Davies