Synergetic Computers and Cognition A Top-Down Approach to Neural Nets

This book presents a novel approach to neural nets and thus offers a genuine alternative to the hitherto known neuro-computers. This approach is based on the author's discovery of the profound analogy between pattern recognition and pattern formation in open systems far from equilibrium. Thus t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haken, Hermann
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2004, 2004
Edition:2nd ed. 2004
Series:Springer Series in Synergetics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Goal
  • 2. What Are Patterns?
  • 3. Associative Memory
  • 4. Synergetics — An Outline
  • 5. The Standard Model of Synergetics for Pattern Recognition
  • 6. Examples: Recognition of Faces and of City Maps
  • 7. Possible Realizations by Networks
  • 8. Simultaneous Invariance with Respect to Translation, Rotation and Scaling
  • 9. Recognition of Complex Scenes. Scene-Selective Attention
  • 10. Learning Algorithms
  • 11. Learning of Processes and Associative Action
  • 12. Comparisons Between Human Perception and Machine “Perception”
  • 13. Oscillations in the Perception of Ambiguous Patterns
  • 14. Dynamic Pattern Recognition of Coordinated Biological Motion
  • 15. Realization of the Logical Operation XOR by a Synergetic Computer
  • 16. Towards the Neural Level
  • 17. Concluding Remarks and Outlook
  • Bibliography and Comments