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Syllabus of the subject
CHANDIGARH UNIVERSITY, GHARUAN
Artificial Neural Networks (CSA-403)
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Credits 3.0
Total
Hours: 45
Course Objectives:
To study basics of biological Neural Network.
To study basics of artificial Neural Network
To study applications of ANN
To study different pattern recognition task using ANN.
Unit-I
Introduction to ANN: Features, structure and working of Biological Neural Network, Trends in
Computing Comparison of BNN and ANN
Basics of Artificial Neural Networks: History of neural network research, characteristics of neural
networks terminology, models of neuron Mc Culloch – Pitts model, Perceptron, Adaline model, Basic
learning laws, Topology of neural network architecture
Backpropagation networks (BPN): Architecture of feed forward network, single layer ANN, multilayer
perceptron, back propagation learning, input - hidden and output layer computation, backpropagation
algorithm, applications, selection of tuning parameters in BPN, Numbers of hidden nodes, learning.
Unit-II
Activation & Synaptic Dynamics: Introduction, Activation Dynamics models, synaptic Dynamics
models, stability and convergence, recall in neural networks.
Basic functional units of ANN for pattern recognition tasks: Basic feedforward, Basic feed back and
basic competitive learning neural network, Pattern association, pattern classification and pattern mapping
tasks.
a) Feedforward neural networks –
- Linear responsibility X-OR problem and solution.
- Analysis of pattern mapping networks summary of basic gradient search methods.
b) Feed back neural networks Pattern storage networks, stochastic networks and simulated annealing,
Boltzmann machine and Boltzmann learning
Unit-III
Competitive learning neural networks: Components of CL network pattern clustering and feature
mapping network, ART networks, Features of ART models, character recognition using ART network.
Applications of ANN: Pattern classification – Recognition of Olympic games symbols, Recognition of
printed Characters. Neocognitron – Recognition of handwritten characters.
NET Talk: to convert English text to speech. Recognition of consonant vowel (CV) segments, texture
classification and segmentation