Handwritten digit recognition with binary optical perceptron

I. Saxena, P. Moerland, E. Fiesler, A. Pourzand

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Abstract

Binary weights are favored in electronic and optical hardware implementations of neural networks as they lead to improved system speeds. Optical neural networks based on fast ferroelectric liquid crystal binary level devices can benefit from the many orders of magnitudes improved liquid crystal response times. An optimized learning algorithm for all-positive perceptrons is simulated on a limited data set of handwritten digits and the resultant network implemented optically. First, gray-scale and then binary inputs and weights are used in recall mode. On comparing the results for the example data set, the binarized inputs and weights network shows almost no loss in performance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArtificial Neural Networks - ICANN 1997 - 7th International Conference, Proceeedings
EditorsWulfram Gerstner, Alain Germond, Martin Hasler, Jean-Daniel Nicoud
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages1253-1258
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)3540636315, 9783540636311
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1997
Event7th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 1997 - Lausanne, Switzerland
Duration: 8 Oct 199710 Oct 1997

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume1327

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 1997
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityLausanne
Period8/10/199710/10/1997

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