Monday, October 8, 2007

Where are neural networks being used?

  • Signal processing: suppress line noise, with adaptive echo canceling, blind source separation
  • Control: e.g. backing up a truck: cab position, rear position, and match with the dock get converted to steering instructions. Manufacturing plants for controlling automated machines.
  • Siemens successfully uses neural networks for process automation in basic industries, e.g., in rolling mill control more than 100 neural networks do their job, 24 hours a day
  • Robotics - navigation, vision recognition
  • Pattern recognition, i.e. recognizing handwritten characters, e.g. the current version of Apple's Newton uses a neural net
  • Medicine, i.e. storing medical records based on case information
  • Speech production: reading text aloud (NETtalk)
  • Speech recognition
  • Vision: face recognition , edge detection, visual search engines
  • Business,e.g.. rules for mortgage decisions are extracted from past decisions made by experienced evaluators, resulting in a network that has a high level of agreement with human experts.
  • Financial Applications: time series analysis, stock market prediction
  • Data Compression: speech signal, image, e.g. faces
  • Game Playing: backgammon, chess, go, ...
refrences:
http://www.willamette.edu/~gorr/classes/cs449/motivate.htm

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