{"title":"Moving object detection algorithm inspired by the sequence detection in the hippocampus and its digital LSI implementation","authors":"Hatsuo Hayashi, Kazuki Nakada, Takashi Morie","doi":"10.1016/j.ics.2006.12.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ics.2006.12.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We propose a high-speed moving object detection algorithm based on parallel processing inspired by the mechanism for sequence detection in neural networks<span> such as the hippocampal CA3 region. Computer simulations verified that the present algorithm performs well. A digital LSI architecture for the moving object detection and a modified algorithm suitable for LSI implementation are also proposed. Correct logical operation was verified using a logic simulator and the algorithm was implemented on an FPGA board.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":84918,"journal":{"name":"International congress series","volume":"1301 ","pages":"Pages 35-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ics.2006.12.011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"96021933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Membership function generator based on bit-shift operation for self-organizing relationship (SOR) network","authors":"Hakaru Tamukoh, Keiichi Horio, Takeshi Yamakawa","doi":"10.1016/j.ics.2006.12.034","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ics.2006.12.034","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A 2<sup>−<em>r</em></sup><span> shape of a membership function generator is presented. The proposed membership function generator requires a bit-shifter and a NOR operation only, and thus suits digital hardware implementation well. A fast defuzzification method employing active units is also presented. It reduces a calculation cost for the defuzzification. In this paper, we have successfully applied proposed methods to a self-organizing relationship network. Simulation results show that the proposed method has as good and approximation ability of nonlinear functions as the ordinary method.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":84918,"journal":{"name":"International congress series","volume":"1301 ","pages":"Pages 180-183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ics.2006.12.034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"99420468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Muscle synergies extracted from human grasping movements","authors":"Fumihiko Ishida, Kazuyuki Karatsu, Yutaka Sakaguchi","doi":"10.1016/j.ics.2006.11.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ics.2006.11.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>The concept of “muscle synergies” has been proposed as a working hypothesis to explain how the central nervous system coordinates the numerous degrees of freedom of the </span>musculoskeletal system. In this study, to examine this hypothesis, we extracted muscle synergies from human </span>electromyography (EMG) patterns during grasping movements. The EMG patterns observed in movements to achieve different goal postures and execution times were represented by combinations of the same set of synergies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84918,"journal":{"name":"International congress series","volume":"1301 ","pages":"Pages 110-113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ics.2006.11.011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"97204708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Propagation of Ca2+ responses among taste bud cells","authors":"Wataru Nogami, Ryotaro Hayato, Kohgaku Eguchi, Kiyonori Yoshii","doi":"10.1016/j.ics.2006.12.019","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ics.2006.12.019","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Biological chemical sensors, taste buds, consist of ∼</span> <!-->40 cells each in mice. These taste bud cells are suggested to form cell networks within taste buds. Here we show that the elevation of Ca<sup>2+</sup> in a taste bud cell is propagated to another cell. These results agree with the hypothesis and will be applied to the manufacturing of the network of chemical sensors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84918,"journal":{"name":"International congress series","volume":"1301 ","pages":"Pages 258-261"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ics.2006.12.019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"111349028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of an oscillating fin type actuator for underwater robots","authors":"Kimikazu Sugiyama, Kazuo Ishii, Keiichi Kaneto","doi":"10.1016/j.ics.2006.12.017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ics.2006.12.017","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We are focusing our attention on bio-inspired technologies and have been developing an oscillating fin type actuator for underwater robots using artificial muscles. Our research aims at the development of a fin type actuator imitating mechanisms of underwater creatures by using an electroconductive polymer as the driving source/s. We expect that this actuator takes the place of a screw propeller for missions that need precise and silent control. In this paper, we introduce the concept of the development of the actuator and the results of the performance evaluation test of the developed electroconductive polymer.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84918,"journal":{"name":"International congress series","volume":"1301 ","pages":"Pages 214-217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ics.2006.12.017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"109028525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adaptive network structure for texture discrimination by a 1-D oscillator system","authors":"Yoshinori Nagai , Ted Maddess","doi":"10.1016/j.ics.2006.12.103","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ics.2006.12.103","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigated 1-D oscillator networks that can discriminate isotrigon textures as humans and bees do. The triangular network system investigated discriminated isotrigon texture pairs in the sense of differences in response dynamics for different textures.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84918,"journal":{"name":"International congress series","volume":"1301 ","pages":"Pages 282-285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ics.2006.12.103","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"106341476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tomasz M. Rutkowski , Rafal Zdunek , Andrzej Cichocki
{"title":"Multichannel EEG brain activity pattern analysis in time–frequency domain with nonnegative matrix factorization support","authors":"Tomasz M. Rutkowski , Rafal Zdunek , Andrzej Cichocki","doi":"10.1016/j.ics.2006.11.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ics.2006.11.013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A novel approach combining a time–frequency representation of brain activity in the form of recorded EEG signals together with nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) post-processing section in brain computer interface<span> (BCI) training paradigm is presented. Such a combination of two emerging signal analysis techniques enables us to find and enhance very small oscillations related to presented visual stimuli. Presented results confirm validity of the chosen approach.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":84918,"journal":{"name":"International congress series","volume":"1301 ","pages":"Pages 266-269"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ics.2006.11.013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"97114652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Noise-induced slow spiking and ISI variability in a simple neuronal model","authors":"Shinji Doi , Junko Inoue , Sadatoshi Kumagai","doi":"10.1016/j.ics.2006.11.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ics.2006.11.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using a very simple neuronal model, it was shown that very slow and chaotic spiking appeared near the Hopf bifurcation point. Noise effect on the slow spiking was studied in detail and various interesting phenomena such as noise-induced spiking variability, deceleration and acceleration effects were presented.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84918,"journal":{"name":"International congress series","volume":"1301 ","pages":"Pages 278-281"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ics.2006.11.010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"106693329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changes in response properties of the cricket giant interneurons during postembryonic development","authors":"Tetsuya Matsuura , Masamichi Kanou","doi":"10.1016/j.ics.2006.12.024","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ics.2006.12.024","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>We investigated the directional sensitivity of four wind-sensitive giant interneurons (GIs), 8-1, 9-1, 9-2 and 9-3, in the fourth-instar nymphs of the cricket </span><span><em>Gryllus bimaculatus</em></span>, using a unidirectional air current stimulus. The directional sensitivity curves expressed with threshold velocities revealed that the preferential directions of GIs in the fourth-instar nymphs were basically the same as those of adults. Intensity-response relations for these GIs in the fourth-, sixth-, last-instar nymphs and adults to air current from front and rear directions were also investigated.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84918,"journal":{"name":"International congress series","volume":"1301 ","pages":"Pages 262-265"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ics.2006.12.024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"112636847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theoretical study on mixed parallel execution for solving SAT","authors":"Kairong Zhang , Masahiro Nagamatu","doi":"10.1016/j.ics.2006.12.021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ics.2006.12.021","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>For the satisfiability problem (SAT), we have proposed a neural network, called LPPH, and a parallelization method, called “mixed parallel execution,” in which LPPH and other algorithms are executed simultaneously. In this paper we study the CPU time of the mixed parallel execution, and prove that the bigger the difference between distribution functions of CPU time of the algorithms used in the parallel execution, the more effective the mixed parallel execution is.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":84918,"journal":{"name":"International congress series","volume":"1301 ","pages":"Pages 176-179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.ics.2006.12.021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"109530423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}