• International Journal of Contents
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.14-22
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• 2011

Temporal Sign Language Recognition (TSLR) from hand motion is an active area of gesture recognition research in facilitating efficient communication with deaf people. TSLR systems consist of two stages: a motion sensing step which extracts useful features from signers' motion and a classification process which classifies these features as a performed sign. This work focuses on two of the research problems, namely unknown time varying signal of sign languages in feature extraction stage and computing complexity and time consumption in classification stage due to a very large sign sequences database. In this paper, we propose a combination of Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) and application of the Single hidden Layer Feedforward Neural networks (SLFNs) trained by Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) to cope the limitations. DTW has several advantages over other approaches in that it can align the length of the time series data to a same prior size, while ELM is a useful technique for classifying these warped features. Our experiment demonstrates the efficiency of the proposed method with the recognition accuracy up to 98.67%. The proposed approach can be generalized to more detailed measurements so as to recognize hand gestures, body motion and facial expression.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.807-812
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• 2007

Recently, Extreme learning machine(ELM), a novel learning algorithm which is much faster than conventional gradient-based learning algorithm, was proposed for single-hidden-layer feedforward neural networks. The initial input weights and hidden biases of ELM are usually randomly chosen, and the output weights are analytically determined by using Moore-Penrose(MP) generalized inverse. But it has the difficulties to choose initial input weights and hidden biases. In this paper, an advanced method using the bacterial foraging algorithm to adjust the input weights and hidden biases is proposed. Experiment at results show that this method can achieve better performance for problems having higher dimension than others.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.281-287
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• 1999

In this paper, a design method based on evolutionary programming for feedforward neural networks which have a single hidden layer is presented. By using an evolutionary programming, the network parameters such as the network structure, weight, slope of sigmoid functions and bias of nodes can be acquired simultaneously. To check the effectiveness of the suggested method, two numerical examples are examined. The performance of the identified network is demonstrated.