CATEGORIZATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF HUMAN FACE IMAGES BY NEURAL NETWORKS: A REVIEW OF THE LINEAR AUTOASSOCIATIVE AND PRINCIPAL COMPONENT APPROACHES

1994 ◽  
Vol 02 (03) ◽  
pp. 413-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. VALENTIN ◽  
H. ABDI ◽  
A.J. O’TOOLE

Recent statistical/neural network models of face processing suggest that faces can be efficiently represented in terms of the eigendecomposition of a matrix storing pixel-based descriptions of a set of face images. The studies presented here support the idea that the information useful for solving seemingly complex tasks such as face categorization or identification can be described using simple linear models (linear autoassociator or principal component analysis) in conjunction with a pixel-based coding of the faces.

Author(s):  
G. A. Rekha Pai ◽  
G. A. Vijayalakshmi Pai

Industrial bankruptcy is a rampant problem which does not occur overnight and when it occurs can cause acute financial embarrassment to Governments and financial institutions as well as threaten the very viability of the firms. It is therefore essential to help industries identify the impending trouble early. Several statistical and soft computing based bankruptcy prediction models that make use of financial ratios as indicators have been proposed. Majority of these models make use of a selective set of financial ratios chosen according to some appropriate criteria framed by the individual investigators. In contrast, this study considers any number of financial ratios irrespective of the industrial category and size and makes use of Principal Component Analysis to extract their principal components, to be used as predictors, thereby dispensing with the cumbersome selection procedures used by its predecessors. An Evolutionary Neural Network (ENN) and a Backpropagation Neural Network with Levenberg Marquardt’s training rule (BPN) have been employed as classifiers and their performance has been compared using Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) analyses. Termed PCA-ENN and PCA-BPN models, the predictive potential of the two models have been analyzed over a financial database (1997-2000) pertaining to 34 sick and 38 non sick Indian manufacturing companies, with 21 financial ratios as predictor variables.


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