This paper presents a methodology that we have developed and used to implement an artificial binocular vision system capable of emulating the vergence eye movements. This methodology involves using Weightless Neural Networks (WNNs) as building blocks of artificial vision architectures. Using the proposed methodology, we have designed several WNN based architectures in which images captured by v...

This paper proposes a brain-inspired cognitive architecture that incorporates approximations to the concepts of consciousness, imagination, and emotion. To emulate the empirically established cognitive efficacy of conscious as opposed to non-conscious information processing in the mammalian brain, the architecture adopts a model of information flow from global workspace theory. Cognitive functi...

The shape of a weightless spinning liquid droplet is governed by the balance between the surface tension and centrifugal forces. The axisymmetric shape for slow rotation becomes unstable to a nonaxisymmetric distortion above a critical angular velocity, beyond which the droplet progresses through a series of 2-lobed shapes. Theory predicts the existence of a family of 3- and 4-lobed equilibrium...

Space exploration missions involve significant participation from astronauts. Therefore, it is of great practical importance to assess the astronauts’ performance via various parameters in cramped and weightless space station. In this paper, we proposed a calibration-free multi-view vision system for astronaut capture, including two modules: (1) an alternating iterative optimization camera pose...

Abstract The application of machine learning in medical diagnosis has become a trend research. Skin infection is one the most seen diseases and world’s infectious diseases, influencing people all ages. reason for explicit attention researchers skin detection due to that disease more visible compared any other disease. In past, varied methods have been proposed, which rendered remarkable results...

It is widely recognized that a Share Economy (SE) Pareto-dominates a FixedWage Economy (FWE) if unions care about employment. This begs the question, why profit sharing is less than ubiquitous. In this paper, we offer a solution to this conundrum by looking at particular transition arrangements from a FWE to a SE. We analytically show that despite the Pareto-dominance of a SE, the changeover fr...

*Department of Mechanical Engineering, Saitama University, Shimo-Okubo 255, Sakura-ku, Saitama 338-8570, Japan (Tel: +81-48-858-3455; e-mail: [email protected]) **Department of Mechanical Engineering, Saitama University, Shimo-Okubo 255, Sakura-ku, Saitama 338-8570, Japan (Tel: +81-48-858-3451; e-mail: [email protected]) ***Department of Mechanical Engineering, Saitama Univer...

We introduce a novel weightless artificial neural architecture based on multiple classifier systems. In this, different modules of a network specialise in recognising specific classes of a multiclass recognition task. Each of these modules comprises individual RAM addresses which store frequency-based probabilistic estimates of how likely it is to observe this pattern as a feature of the traini...

The large memory requirements of deep neural networks limit their deployment and adoption on many devices. Model compression methods effectively reduce the memory requirements of these models, usually through applying transformations such as weight pruning or quantization. In this paper, we present a novel scheme for lossy weight encoding which complements conventional compression techniques. T...

It is widely agreed that the references of indexical expressions are fixed partly by their relations to contextual parameters such as the author, time, and place of the utterance. Because of this, indexicals are sometimes described as token-reflexive or utterance-reflexive in their semantics. But when we inquire into how indexicals help us to identify items within experience, we find that while...