“Distinguished Scholar Lecture” organized by the Teacher Development Center has invited Professor MONCEF GABBOUJ of Tampere University of Technology, Finland, to make academic exchanges. Below are the details of the program. Interested students and faculty members are welcome to attend.
1.Topic:Operational Neural Networks -- New Generation Machine Learning and Applications
2.Speaker:Prof. MONCEF GABBOUJ
3.Time:14:00 (Monday), September 11, 2023
4.Place:Qingshuihe Campus, Coffee Beanery,
5. Introduction：
We discuss Operational Neural Networks (ONNs) and demonstrate that they are more efficient alternatives to conventional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). ONNs can perform any linear or non-linear transformation with a proper combination of “nodal” and “pool” operators. This is a great leap towards expanding the neuron’s learning capacity in CNNs, which thus far required the use of a single nodal operator for all synaptic connections for each neuron. This restriction has recently been lifted by introducing a superior neuron called the “generative neuron” where each nodal operator can be customized during the training in order to maximize learning. As a result, the network is able to self-organize the nodal operators of its neurons’ connections. Self-Organized ONNs (Self-ONNs) equipped with superior generative neurons can achieve diversity even with a compact configuration. We shall explore several signal processing applications of neural network models equipped with the generative and the superior neuron.
6.Speaker’s Profile:
MONCEF GABBOUJ received his MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University, in 1986 and 1989, respectively. Dr. Gabbouj is a Professor of Information Technology at the Department of Computing Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland. He was Academy of Finland Professor during 2011-2015. His research interests include Big Data analytics, multimedia content-based analysis, indexing and retrieval, artificial intelligence, machine learning, pattern recognition, nonlinear signal and image processing and analysis, voice conversion, and video processing and coding. Dr. Gabbouj is a Fellow of the IEEE and Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association. He is member of the Academia Europaea, the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and the Finnish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He served as associate editor and guest editor of many IEEE, many international journals, and General Chair of IEEE SPS and CAS Flagship conferences, ICIP and ISCAS as well as ICME.
VII. Organizer: Teacher Development Center
Co-organizer:School of Information and Communication Engineering
