Drawing inspiration from biological dendrites to empower artificial neural networks

S Chavlis, P Poirazi - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2021 - Elsevier
This article highlights specific features of biological neurons and their dendritic trees, whose
adoption may help advance artificial neural networks used in various machine learning …

Brain-inspired computing: A systematic survey and future trends

G Li, L Deng, H Tang, G Pan, Y Tian… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Brain-inspired computing (BIC) is an emerging research field that aims to build fundamental
theories, models, hardware architectures, and application systems toward more general …

Three Decades of Activations: A Comprehensive Survey of 400 Activation Functions for Neural Networks

V Kunc, J Kléma - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.09092, 2024 - arxiv.org
Neural networks have proven to be a highly effective tool for solving complex problems in
many areas of life. Recently, their importance and practical usability have further been …

Septr: Separable transformer for audio spectrogram processing

NC Ristea, RT Ionescu, FS Khan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.09581, 2022 - arxiv.org
Following the successful application of vision transformers in multiple computer vision tasks,
these models have drawn the attention of the signal processing community. This is because …

Teacher–student training and triplet loss to reduce the effect of drastic face occlusion: Application to emotion recognition, gender identification and age estimation

MI Georgescu, GE Duţǎ, RT Ionescu - Machine Vision and Applications, 2022 - Springer
We study a series of recognition tasks in two realistic scenarios requiring the analysis of
faces under strong occlusion. On the one hand, we aim to recognize facial expressions of …

Self-paced ensemble learning for speech and audio classification

NC Ristea, RT Ionescu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.11988, 2021 - arxiv.org
Combining multiple machine learning models into an ensemble is known to provide superior
performance levels compared to the individual components forming the ensemble. This is …

Complex neural networks for estimating epicentral distance, depth, and magnitude of seismic waves

NC Ristea, A Radoi - IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Taking advantage of the latest advances in deep learning for seismology, we address
earthquake characterization from a data-driven perspective. Many of the usual procedures …

Transforming the embeddings: A lightweight technique for speech emotion recognition tasks

OC Phukan, AB Buduru, R Sharma - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.18640, 2023 - arxiv.org
Speech emotion recognition (SER) is a field that has drawn a lot of attention due to its
applications in diverse fields. A current trend in methods used for SER is to leverage …

EMOLIPS: Towards Reliable Emotional Speech Lip-Reading

D Ryumin, E Ryumina, D Ivanko - Mathematics, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this article, we present a novel approach for emotional speech lip-reading (EMOLIPS).
This two-level approach to emotional speech to text recognition based on visual data …

Leaf analysis based early plant disease detection using Internet of Things, Machine Learning and Deep Learning: A comprehensive review

SR Prasad, GS Thyagaraju - Journal of Integrated Science …, 2024 - pubs.thesciencein.org
In agriculture, the timely identification of plant diseases is vital for reducing crop loss,
ensuring high-quality yields, and fostering sustainable farming practices. The agricultural …