PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME Third International Conference on 'Artificial Neural Networks' Brighton Conference Centre, UK: 25 - 27 May 1993 SECRETARIAT: Sheila Griffiths, ANN'93 Secretariat, Conference Services, IEE, Savoy Place, London WC2R OBL, UK Tel: ++ 44 71 344 54 58 / 54 77 Fax: ++ 44 71 497 36 33 Monday, 24 May 16.00 - 18.00 hrs Registration Tuesday, 25 May 08.00 hrs Registration 09.30 hrs Formal Opening Address of Welcome: Dr R Voles Chairman, Electronics Division Institution of Electrical Engineers Keynote Address: Professor R M Goodman California Institute of Technology USA 10.30 hrs Close of Session and Coffee 11.00 hrs Session 1 - VISION I Session Chairman: A Wright 195 'BARTIN applied to visual inspection of axisymmetric engineering parts' D W McMichael DRA, UK 94 'A practical view based 3D object recognition system' A Evans, J E W Mayhew and N Thacker University of Sheffield, UK 55 'Neural network paradigm for visual pattern recognition' S J Bye Telecom Australia, Australia A Adams University of Tasmania, Australia 130 'Labelling images with a neural network' W P J Mackeown and B T Thomas University of Bristol, UK W A Wright and P Greenway British Aerospace PLC, UK 12.30 hrs Close of Session and Lunch 14.00 hrs Session 2 - ARCHITECTURE I Session Chairman: R Rohwer 188 'Neural network validation: An illustration from the monitoring of multi-phase flows' C M Bishop AEA Technology, UK 109 'Comparing parameters selection methods and weights rounding techniques to optimize the learning in neural networks' J-F Grandin, B Braban, A Halioua and C Ledoux Thomson CSF, France 108 'On recurrent neural networks and representing finite-state recognizers' M W Goudreau and C L Giles NEC Research Institute, Inc., USA 172 'Cascadability and in-situ learning for VLSI multi-layer networks' J Tombs, G Cairns and L Tarassenko University of Oxford, UK 15.30 hrs Close of Session and Tea 16.00 hrs Session 3 - ANALYSIS I Session Chairman: D Lowe 21 'An adaptive bayesian network for low-level image processing' Dr S P Luttrell Defence Research Agency, UK 185 'Neural computing: A new route to software reliability' Professor D Partridge and N Sharkey University of Exeter, UK 50 'Comparison of the performance of vector quantiser training algorithms' J V Black DRA Malvern, UK 173 'Improved generalization and network pruning using adaptive laplace regularization' P M Williams University of Sussex, UK 121 'Improving generalisation with Ockham's networks: Minimum description length networks' G D Kendall and T J Hall King's College London, UK 18.00 hrs Close of Session 18.15 - 19.00 hrs Civic Reception Wednesday, 26 May 08.30 hrs Session 4 - MEDICAL Session Chairman: P Refenes * 'Novelty, validation and classification of medical data: A unified approach using radar basis function architectures' L Tarassenko and S J Roberts University of Oxford, UK 65 'A comparison of neural network architectures for cervical cell classification' S J McKenna, A Y Cairns and I W Ricketts University of Dundee, UK 153 'Ultrasonic tissue characterization using neural networks' T E Schouten, M K Gebbinck, J M Thijssen and J T M Verhoeven Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, Netherlands 171 'Realization of physiological eye movements by automatic selection of control laws using artificial neural network' H Wakamatsu Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan H Suda and M Kuwano Fukui University, Japan 10.30 hrs Close of Session and Coffee 11.00 hrs Session 5 - APPLICATIONS Session Chairman: C Satchwell 191 'Neural network system for tactical asset allocation in the global bond markets' A N Refenes University College London C Diamond. M Azema-Barac and J Shadbolt ECONOSTAT Ltd, UK 19 'Experience with artificial neural network models for short-term load forecasting in electrical power systems: A proposed application of expert networks' A Asar and J R McDonald University of Strathclyde, UK W Rattray Scottish Power, UK 105 'Central auditory model for spectral processing' Y Gao and J-P Haton CRIN, France T Huang Chinese Acadmeny of Sciences, China 96 'Investigating the recognition of false patterns in backpropagation networks' Dr M C Fairhurst, D L Bisset and G C Vasconcelos University of Kent, UK 12.30 hrs Close of Session and Lunch 14.00 hrs Session 6 - POSTER SESSION AND SESSION ON THE INITIATIVES IN NEURAL NETWORKS IN THE UK Session Chairman: R Wiggins, DTI 'The Neural Computing Applications Forum' Simon Cummings British Airways, UK 'The Department of Trade and Industry programme' Ray Brown DTI, UK Representatives of DTI sponsored clubs will give presentations of their activiti es: A Furness Keel University, UK Derek Bunn London Business School, UK C Bishop AEA Technology, UK Vic Bevan EDS Scicon, UK Paul gregory Recognition Research Ltd, UK A Carr ERA Technology, UK 15.30 hrs Close of Session and Tea POSTER PAPERS 70 'Stochastic analysis and comparison of kohonen SOM with optimal filter' N M Allinson and H Yin University of York, UK 183 'Learning and prediction of nuclear radioactive properties with artificial neural networks' S Gazula University of Miami, USA 38 'An 'introspective' network that can learn to run its own weight change algorithm' J Schmidhuber Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany 91 'Using prototypes to solve problems in neural net classifiers' C Decaestecker IRIDIA - Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium 161 'Scene segmentation of natural images using texture features and back-propagation' B Sridhar, G Chatterjee and A Phatak NASA Ames Research Center, USA 20 'On-line adaption in robot control' D A Fraser, K Althoefer and F Azhar King's College London, UK 59 'Neural network for modelling and control of fed batch fermentation process' N A Jalel, J R Leigh and D Tsaptsinos University of Westminster, UK 14 'Towards a neural network based system for skin cancer diagnosis' Dr E Claridge University of Birmingham, UK R T J Bostock and A J Harget Aston University, UK P N Hall Wardsley Hospital, UK 23 'Modelling of a fermentation process using a time-delay neural network' D Tsaptsinos and J R Leigh University of Westminster, UK 152 'Minimisation of torque ripple in a switched reluctance motor using a neural network' D S Reay, T C Green and B W Williams Heriot-Watt University, UK 137 'Neural network based fingerprint classification' K Moscinska and G Tyma Silesian Technical University, Poland 69 'Variable bit rate block truncation coding for image compression using hopfield neural networks' Dr M R Varley, G Qiu and T J Terrell University of Central Lancashire, UK 192 'Target classification using neural and classical techniques' A K Patel, P R Collins and W A Wright Sowerby Research Centre, UK 87 'A stochastic reverse interpolation algorithm for real-valued function learning' Dr T G Clarkson, D Gorse, Y Guan and J G Taylor King's College London, UK 119 'Dynamic DBP learning algorithm for real time applications' Y Jin, A G Pipe and A Winfield University of the West of England, UK 136 'A probabilistic approach which provides a modular and adaptive neural network architecture for discrimination' C Monrocq Thomson-CSF LCR, France 148 'Neural network based dynamic models' B Pataki Technical University of Budapest, Hungary 80 'External stimuli in optimised attractor neural networks for sparsely coded patterns' A N Burkitt Australian National University, Australia 103 'Parallel learning algorithms for principal component extraction' Dr B Freisleben University of Darmstadt, Germany 97 'Modular connectionist architectures for multi-patient ECG recognition' S Farrugia, P Nickolls and H Yee The University of Sydney, Australia 178 'Decentralized hopfield neural network applied to maintenance scheduling of generating units in power systems' K Yoshimoto, K Yasuda and R Yokoyama Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan B J Cory Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK 190 'Neural network processing of scattered light measurements in the detection of immiscible water pollutants' Dr P R Smith, D A Green, R Naimimohosses and H Thomason Loughborough University of Technology, UK 56 'A connectionist approach to SDH bandwidth management' S J Bye Telecom Australia, Australia 141 'LSP speech synthesis using backpropagation networks' P Noakes and G C Cawley University of Essex, UK 16.00 hrs Session 7 - CONTROL AND ROBOTICS Session Chairman: A J Morris 88 'Analysing recurrent dynamical networks evolved for robotic control' Dr D Cliff, I Harvey and P Husbands University of Sussex, UK 167 'Robot path planning using VLSI resistive grids' Ms G Marshall and L Tarassenko University of Oxford, UK 75 'Minimum variance control of a class of nonlinear plants with neural networks' Professor S Bittanti and L Piroddi Politecnico di Milano, Italy 159 'Neural networks performing system identification for control applications' O Sorensen Aalborg University, Denmark 131 'A neural network motion predictor' H Meng and P D Picton Open University, UK 18.00 hrs Close of Session 19.30 hrs Conference Dinner at Old Ship Hotel Thursday, 27 May 09.00 hrs Session 8 - ANALYSIS II Session Chairman: C Bishop 149 'A hebbian/anti-hebbian network which optimize information capacity by orthonormalizing the principal subspace' Dr M D Plumbley King's College London, UK 31 'A novel unsupervised classification method' J Schmidhuber and D Prelinger Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany 129 'Novel 'Topographic' nonlinear feature extraction using radial basis functions for concentration coding in the 'Artificial Nose'' D Lowe DRA Malvern, UK 117 'Valid generalization in radial basis function networks and modified kanerva models' S B Holden Cambridge University, UK 10.30 hrs Close of Session and Coffee 11.00 hrs Session 9 - APPLICATIONS II Session Chairman: L Tarassenko 133 'Speaker identification using radial basis functions' M W Mak, W G Allen and G G Sexton University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK 99 'Nonlinear noise filtering with neural networks: Comparison with Wiener optimal filtering' T Fechner Dainler Benz AG Research Institute, Germany 41 'Complex-valued radial basis function networks' Dr S Chen, P M Grant, S McLaughlin and B Mulgrew The University of Edinburgh, UK 76 'Neural Nets for first break detection in seismic reflection data' J F Boyce and C H Dimitropoulos King's College London, UK 12.30 hrs Close of Session and Lunch 14.00 hrs Session 10: VISION II Session Chairman: S Lutterell 40 'Target recognition in infra-red imagery using neural networks and machine learning' A Crowe British Aerospace, UK W A Wright, M A Green, T M Banks and A D Hughes British Aerospace (Systems & Equipment) Limited, UK 170 'An original approach for the localization of objects in images' R Vaillant, Y Le Cun and C Monrocq Thomson-CSF, France 84 'Unsupervised feature extraction by hypothesis of feature centres' Ms M-Y Chan and T J Hall King's College London, UK 11 'A hardware polynomial feature net for handprinted digit recognition' A Rao Eastman Kodak Company, USA P G Anderson Rochester Institute of Technology, USA R S Gaborski and K Jaiswal Arizona State University, USA 16.30 hrs CLOSE OF CONFERENCE