We propose an algorithm for training Multi Layer Preceptrons for classification problems, that we named Hidden Layer Learning Vector Quantization (H-LVQ). It consists of applying Learning Vector Quantization to the last hidden layer of a MLP and it gave very successful results on problems containing a large number of correlated inputs. It was applied with excellent results on classification of ...

This paper presents the development of soft clustering and learning vector quantization (LVQ) algorithms that rely on multiple weighted norms to measure the distance between the feature vectors and their prototypes. Clustering and LVQ are formulated in this paper as the minimization of a reformulation function that employs distinct weighted norms to measure the distance between each of the prot...

In this paper, the generalized learning vector quantization (GLVQ) algorithm is applied to design a handwritten Chinese character recognition system. The system proposed herein consists of two modules, feature transformation and recognizer. The feature transformation module is designed to extract discriminative features to enhance the recognition performance. The initial feature transformation ...

Vector quantization(VQ) is an attractive technique for lossy data compression, which has been a key technology for data storage and/or transfer. So far, various competitive learning (CL) algorithms have been proposed to design optimal codebooks presenting quantization with minimized errors. However, their practical use has been limited for large scale problems, due to the computational complexi...

In this paper we propose a simple yet powerful method for learning representations in supervised learning scenarios where an input datapoint is described by a set of feature vectors and its associated output may be given by soft labels indicating, for example, class probabilities. We represent an input datapoint as a K-dimensional vector, where each component is a mixture of probabilities over ...

The support vector machine (SVM) constitutes one of the most successful current learning algorithms with excellent classification accuracy in large real-life problems and strong theoretical background. However, a SVM solution is given by a not intuitive classification in terms of extreme values of the training set and the size of a SVM classifier scales with the number of training data. General...

This paper presents a novel computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) tool for the diagnosis of the Alzheimer’s disease (AD) using structural Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs). The proposed method uses information learnt from the tissue distribution of Gray Matter (GM) and White Matter (WM) in the brain, which is previously obtained by an unsupervised segmentation method. The tissue distribution of control...

This paper presents Handy, a real-time hand gesture recognizer based on a three color glove. The recognizer is formed by three modules. The first module, fed by the frame acquired by a webcam, identifies the hand image in the scene. The second module, a feature extractor, represents the image by a nine-dimensional feature vector. The third module, the classifier, is performed by means of Learni...

A recently developed data separation/classification method, called isotonic separation, is applied to breast cancer prediction. Two breast cancer data sets, one with clean and sufficient data and the other with insufficient data, are used for the study and the results are compared against those of decision tree induction methods, linear programming discrimination methods, learning vector quanti...

In this paper, a new competition strategy for learning vector quantization is proposed. The simple competitive strategy used for learning vector quantization moves the winning prototype which is the closest to the newly given data pattern. We propose a new learning strategy based on k-nearest neighbor prototypes as the winning prototypes. The selection of several prototypes as the winning proto...