Neural Networks Group - University of Edinburgh

This is held on Friday afternoon at 2pm in Alrick 2.6.

1st Semester
25th September	Katherine Cameron	A Reconfigurable and Biologically Inspired Paradigm for Computation Using Network-On-Chip and Spiking Neural Networks, International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing, Vol 2009, Article ID 908740
2nd October	Tong-Boon Tang	Playing Pinball with non-invasive BCI, NIPS, 2008
9th October	Andrew Cogman	The generalized proportional-integral-derivative (PID) gradient descent back propagation algorithm, Neural Networks, Vol 8(4), 1995, pp 563-569
16th October	Zhijun Yang	Matching storage and recall: hippocampal spike timing-dependent plasticity and phase response curves, Nature Neuroscience, Vol 8(12), 2005, pp 1677-1683
23rd October	Cheng-Kai Lu	Active Contours Without Edges, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol 10(2), 2001, pp 266-277
30th October	Thomas Clayton	A Highly Parameterised and Efficient FPGA-Based Skeleton for Pairwise Biological Sequence Alignment, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI Systems), Vol 17(4), 2009, pp 561-570
6th November	Alex Kourkoulas - Chondrorizos	Controlling Electromagnetic Fields, Science, Vol 312, 2006, pp 1780-1782 Broadband Invisibility by Non-Euclidean Cloaking, Science, Vol 323, 2009, pp 110-112
13th November	Hugo Monteiro	Variational Motion Segmentation with Level Sets, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 3951, 2006, pp 471-483
20th November	Juan Huo	Bayes' Bluff: Opponent Modelling in Poker. Proceedings of the Twenty-First Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2005, pp. 550-558
27th November	Andrew Angus	An 8th-order MASH delta-sigma with an OSR of 3, Proceedings of ESSCIRC, 2009, pp 476-479
2nd Semester
22nd January	Katherine Cameron	A CMOS circuit implementation of a spiking neuron with bursting and adaptation on a biological timescale, BIOCAS, 2009, pp 193-196
29th January	Tong-Boon Tang	Discriminative network models of Schizophrenia, NIPS, 2009
5th February	Andrew Cogman	Presented overview of his work
12th February	Zhijun Yang	Solving the Distal Reward Problem through Linkage of STDP and Dopamine Signaling, Cerebral Cortex, 13 January 2007
19th February	Cheng-Kai Lu	Automated Optic Disc Localization and Contour Detection Using Ellipse Fitting and Wavelet Transform, Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2004, pp 139-151
26th February	Thomas Clayton	Automatic fitting of spiking neuron models to electrophysiological recordings, Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 2010, doi:10.3389/neuro.11.002.2010
5th March	Alex Kourkoulas - Chondrorizos	Testing spooky action at a distance, Nature, Vol 454, 2008, pp 861-864
12th March	Hugo Monteiro	Self-organized adaptation of a simple neural circuit enables complex robot behaviour, Nature Physics, Vol 6, 2010, pp 224-230
19th March	Andrew Angus	Why Dynamic-Element-Matching DACs Work, IEEE Trans Circuits and Systems II, Vol 57(2), 2010, pp 69-74
Mid-Semester Break
23rd April	Juan Huo	Presented overview of her work
30th April	Katherine Cameron	A Random Number Generator Based on Single-Photon Avalanche Photodiode Dark Counts, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol 27(24), 2009, pp 5665-5667
7th May	Tong-Boon Tang	Poisson Image Editing, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol 22(3), 2003, pp 313-318
14th May	Katherine Cameron	Practice for ISCAS
21st May	Zhijun Yang	Oscillation in a network model of neocortex, Neurocomputing, Vol 73, 2001, pp 1051-1056
28th May	Thomas Clayton	POSTPONED
4th June	Cheng-Kai Lu	POSTPONED
11th June	Alex Kourkoulas - Chondrorizos
18th June	Hugo Monteiro
25th June	Andrew Angus

Previous Years

2008/2009 2007/2008 2006/2007