• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.172-178
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• 2003

In the recent researches, a variety of ways for determining the locations of RBF centers have been proposed assuming that the number of RBF centers is known. But they have also many numerical drawbacks. We propose a new method to overcome such drawbacks. The strength of our method is to determine the locations and the number of RBF centers at the same time without any assumption about the number of RBF centers. The proposed method consists of two phases. The first phase is to determine the number and the locations of RBF centers using bi-section search method and enhanced k-medoids clustering which overcomes drawbacks of clustering algorithm. In the second phase, network weights are computed and the design of RBF network is completed. This new method is applied to several benchmark data sets. Benchmark results show that the proposed method is competitive with the previously reported approaches for center selection.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.35 no.9
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• pp.547-553
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• 2008

We propose a two-stage document layout segmentation method. At the first stage, as top-down segmentation, morphological distance map algorithm extracts a collection of rectangular regions from a given input image. This preliminary result from the first stage is employed as input parameters for the process of next stage. At the second stage, a machine-learning algorithm is adopted RBF network, one of neural networks based on statistical model, is selected. In order for constructing the hidden layer of RBF network, a data clustering technique bared on the self-organizing property of Kohonen network is utilized. We present a result showing that the supervised neural network, trained by 300 number of sample data, improves the preliminary results of the first stage.

• Advances in environmental research
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.219-231
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• 2015

In recent years, raising air pollutants has become as a big concern, especially in metropolitan cities such as Tehran. Therefore, forecasting the level of pollutants plays a significant role in air quality management. One of the forecasting tools that can be used is an artificial neural network which is able to model the complicated process of air pollution. In this study, we applied two different methods of artificial neural networks, the Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and Radial Basis Function (RBF), to predict the hourly air concentrations of toluene in Tehran. Hourly temperature, wind speed, humidity and $NO_x$ were selected as inputs. Both methods had acceptable results; however, the RBF neural network produced better results. The coefficient of determination ($R^2$) between the observed and predicted data was 0.9642 and 0.99 for MLP and RBF neural networks, respectively. The results of the mean bias errors (MBE) were 0.00 and -0.014 for RBF and MLP, respectively which indicate the adequacy of the models. The index of agreement (IA) between the observed and predicted data was 0.999 and 0.994 in the RBF and the MLP, respectively which indicates the efficiency of the models. Finally, sensitivity analysis related to the MLP neural network determined that temperature was the most significant factor in air concentration of toluene in Tehran which may be due to the volatile nature of toluene.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.07b
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• pp.394-396
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• 1997

This paper describes RBF network controller based on fuzzy control rules for intelligent control of nonlinear systems. The proposed scheme is derived from the functional equivalence between RBF networks and fuzzy inference systems. The design procedure of the proposed scheme is realized by first transforming the fuzzy control rules into the parameters of RBF networks. The optimized RBF network controller is then performed through the gradient descent learning mechanism to an error function. The proposed method is rigorously tested using a nonlinear and unstable nonlinear system. Simulation is performed to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.700-706
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• 2005

The immigration control system authorizes the immigration of travelers by means of passport inspections such as the judgment of forged passports, the search for a wanted criminal or a person disqualified for immigration, etc. The judgment of forged passports plays an important role in the immigration control system. Therefore, as the pre-phase for the judgment of forged passports, this paper proposed a novel method for the recognition of passport using ART2-based RBF network. The proposed method extracts the area of code and individual codes by applying the Sobel masking, the smearing and the contour tracking algorithm in turn to the passport image. This paper proposed the RBF network that applies the ART2 algorithm to the middle layer, and applied the enhanced RBF network to the recognition of individual codes. The results of the experiments for performance evaluation on the real passport images showed that the proposed method has the better performance compared with other approaches.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.11C
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• pp.1085-1091
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• 2006

The major goal of this paper is to develop a practically implemental radial basis function (RBF) neural network based multi-user detector (MUD) for direct sequence (DS)-CDMA system. This work is expected to provide an efficient solution for RBF based MUD by quickly setting up the proper number of RBF centers and their locations required in training. The basic idea in this research is to estimate all the possible RBF centers by using supervised ${\kappa-means$ clustering technique, and select the only centers which locate near seemingly decision boundary between centers, and reduce further by grouping the some of centers adjacent each other. Therefore, it reduces the computational burden for finding the proper number of RBF centers and their locations in the existing RBF based MUD, and ultimately, make its implementation practical.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.8D no.5
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• pp.581-586
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• 2001

An increasingly important facet of software development is the ability to estimated the associated coast and effort of development early in the development life cycle. In spite of the most generally sued procedures for estimation of the software development effort and cost were linear regression analysis. As a result of the software complexity and various development environments, the software effort and cost estimates that are grossly inaccurate. The application of nonlinear methods hold the greatest promise for achieving this objects. Therefore this paper presents an RBF (radial basis function) network model that is able to represent the nonlinear relation for software development effort, The research describes appropriate RBF network modeling in the context of a case study for 24 software development projects. Also, this paper compared the RBF network model with a regression analysis model. The RBF network model is the most accuracy of all.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.1863_1864
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 복잡한 비선형 모델링 방법인 RBF 뉴럴 네트워크(Radial Basis Function Neural Network)와 PNN(Polynomial Neural Network)을 접목한 새로운 형태의 Radial Basis Function Polynomial Neural Network(RPNN)를 제안한다. RBF 뉴럴 네트워크는 빠른 학습 시간, 일반화 그리고 단순화의 특징으로 비선형 시스템 모델링 등에 적용되고 있으며, PNN은 생성된 노드들 중에서 우수한 결과값을 가진 노드들을 선택함으로써 모델의 근사화 및 일반화에 탁월한 효과를 가진 비선형 모델링 방법이다. 제안된 RPNN모델의 기본적인 구조는 PNN의 형태를 이루고 있으며, 각각의 노드는 RBF 뉴럴 네트워크로 구성하였다. 사용된 RBF 뉴럴 네트워크에서의 커널 함수로는 FCM 클러스터링을 사용하였으며, 각 노드의 후반부는 다항식 구조로 표현하였다. 또한 입력개수, 입력변수, 클러스터의 개수를 PSO알고리즘(Particle Swarm Optimization)을 사용하여 최적화 시켰다. 제안한 모델의 적용 및 유용성을 비교 평가하기 위하여 비선형 데이터를 이용하여 그 우수성을 보인다.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.58 no.2
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• pp.399-406
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• 2009

In this study, Polynomial Radial Basis Function Neural Network(pRBFNN) based on Fuzzy Inference System is designed and its parameters such as learning rate, momentum coefficient, and distributed weight (width of RBF) are optimized by means of Particle Swarm Optimization. The proposed model can be expressed as three functional module that consists of condition part, conclusion part, and inference part in the viewpoint of fuzzy rule formed in 'If-then'. In the condition part of pRBFNN as a fuzzy rule, input space is partitioned by defining kernel functions (RBFs). Here, the structure of kernel functions, namely, RBF is generated from HCM clustering algorithm. We use Gaussian type and Inverse multiquadratic type as a RBF. Besides these types of RBF, Conic RBF is also proposed and used as a kernel function. Also, in order to reflect the characteristic of dataset when partitioning input space, we consider the width of RBF defined by standard deviation of dataset. In the conclusion part, the connection weights of pRBFNN are represented as a polynomial which is the extended structure of the general RBF neural network with constant as a connection weights. Finally, the output of model is decided by the fuzzy inference of the inference part of pRBFNN. In order to evaluate the proposed model, nonlinear function with 2 inputs, waster water dataset and gas furnace time series dataset are used and the results of pRBFNN are compared with some previous models. Approximation as well as generalization abilities are discussed with these results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.19-22
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• 2006

Type-2 fuzzy 이론은 기존의 퍼지 이론보다 패턴의 불확실성에 대한 제어를 더 향상시킬 수 있다. 반면에 계산 량이 커지는 문제점 때문에 본 논문에서는 type-2 fuzzy set 대신에 secondary membership이 interval의 형태를 갖는 interval type-2 fuzzy set을 기존의 radial basis function(RBF) neural network에 적용시킨 interval type-2 fuzzy RBF neural network를 제안한다. 제안한 알고리즘은 interval type-2 fuzzy membership function에 의하여 패턴들의 불확실성을 좀 더 잘 제어하여 기존의 RBF neural network의 성능을 향상시킬 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 제안한 알고리즘의 타당성을 보이기 위하여 여러 데이터 집합에 대한 분류 결과를 보인다.