Neuromorphic Cognitive Systems
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Significant progress in computational neuroscience and                          neuroengineering requires a multifaceted interdisciplinary                      research program in several interrelated areas:                                                                                                                 Mathematical modeling and analysis of neural nets to better                     understand their collective behavior and capabilities for                       practical applications.                                                                                                                                         Neurophysiological studies to better understand how retinal                     information is processed by neuronal assemblies in the striate                  and extrastriate cortex.  Neural vision systems and their VLSI                  implementation for scene analysis and primitive extraction.                                                                                                     Architectures and opto-electronic implementations of                            self-organizing neural nets partitioned into input/output and                   internal neurons for supervised and unsupervised learning with                  stochastic and deterministic state update rules.  Higher order                  processing, in interconnected neural net modules utilizing,                     sequential and cyclic storage and recall, generalization, for                   multisensory data fusion and knowledge aggregation.                                                                                                             Smart sensing and recognition from sketchy information with                     emphasis on object recognition including study of object                        representations that produce distortion invariant recognition.                                                                                                  Highly structured associative memory and processing of spoken                   language.  Study of optical materials and devices suitable for                  realizing artificial plasticity and learning specially in nets                  with unipolar binary neurons and ternary synaptic weights that                  facilitate opto-electronic implementations.                                                                                                                     The present proposal deals with studies to be carried out by a                  group of faculty with extensive expertise in the above areas,                   from the schools of Engineering and Medicine.  Results of this                  research are expected to contribute to the development of a new                 generation of neuromorphic cognitive systems and to                             outperform more conventional approaches to signal processing.                   outperform more conventional approaches to signal and
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