Artificial Neural Networks

Course Nos. ECE.09.560 (Grad), ECE.09.454 (Senior Elective)

Fall 2010
Tentative Course Schedule

 
Week
(Date)		 Topic
Chapter 
   Lecture 
Week 1
(Sep 13)		 Introduction to Neural Networks 
The Perceptron
 1
 Lecture 1
Week 2 
(Sep 20)		 Learning Paradigms, LMS Algorithm 
Lab Project 1: Single-layer Perceptron		 2
3
 Lecture 2
Week 3
(Sep 27)		 Multi-layer Perceptrons (MLP) 
Backpropagation Algorithm
Lab Project 2: Multi-layer Perceptron
 4
 Lecture 3
Week 4
(Oct 4)		 Backprop. (contd) 
4
 Continue Lab Project 2
Week 5
(Oct 11)		 Bayes Classifier
MLP training heuristcs
 1
4
 Lecture 5
Week 6 
(Oct 18)		 Radial Basis Function (RBF) 
Networks
Lab Project 3: Radial Basis Functions		 5
 Lecture 6
Week 7
(Oct 25)		 Fuzzy Neural Networks  Handout
 Lecture 7
Week 8
(Nov 1)		 Final Project Proposal Due
Midterm Exam		 In Class + Take Home
Week 9
(Nov 8)		 Feature Extraction
Approximation Theory
7
 Lecture 9
Week 10
(Nov 15)		 Self Organizing Maps 
Hopfield Neural Networks
Lab Project 4: Self Organizing Maps
 9
 Lecture 10
Week 11
(Nov 22)		 Recurrent neural networks
 15
Week 12
(Nov 29)		 Final Project Presentations
  • Jassel: Dynamic Programming
  • Staudinger, Schaeffer: EEG Biomarkers for Alzehimer's Disease
  • Torres: Fingerprint ID
  • Steinbronn, Stever: Phoneme Segmentation

Week 13
(Dec 6)		 Final Project Presentations
  • Grady, Bedford: ANNs for Texas Hold'em
  • Spehalski, Speranza: Hardware Neural Nets
  • Ridgeway: Iriscan Classification
  • Houwen, Hague: Baseball Swing Prediction
  • Timko: Weather Forecasting

Week 14
(Dec 13)		 Final Project Presentations
  • Link, Ianacone: Predicting Currency Exchange Rates
  • Fuscia, Cruz: Tetris
  • Susca, Kratky: QR Code Classification
  • Smith: Neurodynamics
  • Powers, Kowalski, Beaudoin: Speech Recognition

Week 15
(Dec 20)		 Final Project Presentations
  • Dyer: Nonstationary Data Sets
  • Spanier, Jiao: Musical Instrument Classification
  • Giacopelli:: Wavelet Basis Function Neural Networks
  • Carella: Facial Recognition w/ Hu Invariant Moments

 
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