arlier hybrid multilayer perceptron (MLP)/hidden Markov model (HMM) continuous speech recognition sysr g tems have not modeled context-dependent phonetic effects, sequences of distributions for phonetic models, o ender-based speech consistencies. In this paper we present a new MLP architecture and training procedure for t " modeling context-dependent phonetic classes with a sequence of distribu...

In this contribution, one and two-stage neural networks methods for face recognition are presented. For two-stage systems, the Kohonen self-organizing map is used as a feature extractor and multiplayer perceptron (MLP) or radial basis function (RBF) network are used as classifiers. The results of such recognition are compared with face recognition using a one-stage multilayer perceptron and rad...

Jointly using audio and video features can increase the robustness of automatic speech recognition systems in noisy environments. A systematic and reliable performance gain, however, is only achieved if the contributions of the audio and video stream to the decoding decision are dynamically optimized, for example via so-called stream weights. In this paper, we address the problem of dynamic str...

Neural network process modelling needs the use of experimental design and studies. A new neural network constructive algorithm is proposed. Moreover, the paper deals with the influence of the parameters of radial basis function neural networks and multilayer perceptrons network in process modelling. Particularly, it is shown that the neural modelling, depending on learning approach, cannot be a...

A multilayer perceptron is a feed forward artificial neural network model that maps sets of input data onto a set of appropriate output. It is a modification of the standard linear perceptron in that it uses three or more layers of neurons (nodes) with nonlinear activation functions and is more powerful than the perceptron in that it can distinguish data that is not linearly separable, or separ...

N eural networks are very powerful as nonlinear signal processors, but obtained results are often far from satisfactory. The purpose of this article is to evaluate the reasons for these frustrations and show how to make these neural networks successful. The following are the main challenges of neural network applications: 1) Which neural network architectures should be used? 2) How large should...

The ability of Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) and Neuro-Fuzzy neural networks to classify corn seed varieties based on mixed morphological and color Features has been evaluated that would be helpful for automation of corn handling. This research was done in Islamic Azad University, Shahr-e-Rey Branch, during 2011 on 5 main corn varieties were grown in different environments of Iran. A total of 12...

The procedure of calculating Mel Frequency based Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) is shown to resemble a three layer Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) like structure. Such an MLP is employed as a preprocessor in a hybrid HMM-MLP system, and the possibility of optimizing the whole system as a single entity, with respect to a suitable criterion, is pointed out. This system, together with the Maximum Mutual...

We apply multilayer perceptron (MLP) based hierarchical Tandem features to large vocabulary continuous speech recognition in Mandarin. Hierarchical Tandem features are estimated using a cascade of two MLP classifiers which are trained independently. The first classifier is trained on perceptual linear predictive coefficients with a 90 ms temporal context. The second classifier is trained using ...