This thesis aims to present a color segmentation approach for traffic sign recognition based on LVQ neural networks. The RGB images were converted into HSV color space, and segmented using LVQ depending on the hue and saturation values of each pixel in the HSV color space. LVQ neural network was used to segment red, blue and yellow colors on the road and traffic signs to detect and recognize them. LVQ was effectively applied to 536 sampled images taken from different countries in different conditions with 89% accuracy and the execution time of each image among 31 images was calculated in between 0.726sec to 0.844sec. The method was tested in different environmental conditions and LVQ showed its capacity to reasonably segment color despite remarkable illumination differences. The results showed high robustness.

La presente tesis, tuvo como objetivo mostrar una estrategia a través de redes neuronales, para los vehículos del Cuerpo General de Bomberos Voluntarios del Perú (CGBVP) durante una emergencia en el distrito de Surco, contribuyendo a la fluidez vehicular de las unidades en situaciones de emergencia. A nivel mundial se puede apreciar que se han desarrollado diferentes estrategias o sistemas que apoyan a las unidades de emergencia. El desarrollo del sistema propuesto consiste en preparar los semáforos con anticipación al paso de una unidad. Para ello se consideraron dos tipos de datos, ubicación y dirección, con el fin de activar los semáforos tiempo antes que el vehículo llegue a la intersección. El presente estudio analizó la red Neuronal LVQ (Learning Vector Quantization) y 2 tipos de red Backpropagation con el fin de determinar cuál de ellas es la más adecuada para el caso propuesto. Finalmente a través de simulaciones se determinó la red Backpropagation [100 85 10] obtuvo mejores resultados, siendo el de regresión igual a 0.99 y presentando valores de error en un rango de 10^-5 o menores. El algoritmo por Backpropagation [100 85 10] demostró durante sus 3 simulaciones responder correctamente a los 3 escenarios planteados. Demostrando únicamente variaciones pequeñas durante las simulaciones pero ninguna superando valores aceptables de 0 o 1 lógico. The following thesis had as objective to show a strategy using neural networks to help vehicles of the fire fighter brigade in Peru (CGBVP) during emergencies on the district of Surco, helping with the response times of the unit on emergency situations. Worldwide can be seen that strategies or systems are being used to help lower the problems of traffic. The development of the proposed system consist on preparing the traffic lights previous the arrival of the unit to the intersection. For this 2 type of data is being considered, location and direction, in order to activate the lights time before the vehicle arrives to the intersection. The present study analyzed the LVQ (Learning Vector Quantization) and 2 types of backpropagation networks in order to determine which of them is the most fitting for the situation to handle. Finally, going through the simulations it was determined that the [100 85 10] backpropagation network had the best response, being the regression 0.99 and showing error on the range of 10^-5 or lowers. The algorithm by backpropagation [100 85 10] showed during the 3 simulations that works property on all 3 situations. It showed small variations on some of the simulations but nothing out of the acceptable values of a logic 1 or 0.

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a degenerative illness whose cardinal symptoms include rigidity, tremor, and slowness of movement. In addition to its widely recognized effects PD can have a profound effect on speech and voice.The speech symptoms most commonly demonstrated by patients with PD are reduced vocal loudness, monopitch, disruptions of voice quality, and abnormally fast rate of speech. This cluster of speech symptoms is often termed Hypokinetic Dysarthria.The disease can be difficult to diagnose accurately, especially in its early stages, due to this reason, automatic techniques based on Artificial Intelligence should increase the diagnosing accuracy and to help the doctors make better decisions. The aim of the thesis work is to predict the PD based on the audio files collected from various patients.Audio files are preprocessed in order to attain the features.The preprocessed data contains 23 attributes and 195 instances. On an average there are six voice recordings per person, By using data compression technique such as Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) number of instances can be minimized, after data compression, attribute selection is done using several WEKA build in methods such as ChiSquared, GainRatio, Infogain after identifying the important attributes, we evaluate attributes one by one by using stepwise regression.Based on the selected attributes we process in WEKA by using cost sensitive classifier with various algorithms like MultiPass LVQ, Logistic Model Tree(LMT), K-Star.The classified results shows on an average 80%.By using this features 95% approximate classification of PD is acheived.This shows that using the audio dataset, PD could be predicted with a higher level of accuracy.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-12T15:52:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 license.txt: 1748 bytes, checksum: 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Este trabalho propõe uma nova abordagem para classificação de objetos em imagens binárias de duas dimensões usando descritores de curvatura, descritores de momento e uma rede neural artificial. O modelo proposto classifica objetos utilizando uma rede neural supervisionada e, através do uso de uma distribuição de probabilidade, associa um coeficiente de certeza para cada classificação. Foram utilizados os descritores de imagens conhecidos por Momento de Hu e o Curvature Scale Space para prover uma representação invariante às transformações das imagens, enquanto que o modelo neural proposto utiliza a correlação máxima entre as representações dos objetos para efetuar a classificação e uma distribuição de probabilidade para calcular o coeficiente de certeza da classificação de cada imagem. A avaliação da robustez baseou-se na medida da precisão da classificação para imagens rotacionadas, escaladas e com transformações não-lineares que formam um conjunto de imagens padrão, usado pelo grupo MPEG na criação da norma MPEG-7, demonstrando assim a aplicabilidade do método

The task of automatically recognizing targets in IR imagery has a history of approximately 25 years of research and development. ATR is an application of pattern recognition and scene analysis in the field of defense industry and it is still one of the challenging problems. This thesis may be viewed as an exploratory study of ATR problem with encouraging recognition algorithms implemented in the area. The examined algorithms are among the solutions to the ATR problem, which are reported to have good performance in the literature. Throughout the study, PCA, subspace LDA, ICA, nearest mean classifier, K nearest neighbors classifier, nearest neighbor classifier, LVQ classifier are implemented and their performances are compared in the aspect of recognition rate. According to the simulation results, the system, which uses the ICA as the feature extractor and LVQ as the classifier, has the best performing results. The good performance of this system is due to the higher order statistics of the data and the success of LVQ in modifying the decision boundaries.