Output Characteristics of Three-Layer Cellular
Neural Networks Processing Color Images
Takashi Inoue

Yoshifumi Nishio

Dept. Electrical and Electronic Eng.,
Tokushima University
Email: takashi@ee.tokushima-u.ac.jp

Dept. Electrical and Electronic Eng.,
Tokushima University
nishio@is.tokushima-u.ac.jp

S UMMARY
Cellular Neural Networks (CNN) [1] were introduced by Chua and Yang in 1988. The idea of the CNN was inspired fromthe architecture of the cellular automata and the neural networks. Unlike the conventional neural networks, the CNN has local
connectivity property. Since the structure of the CNN resembles the structure of animals’ retina, the CNN can be used forvarious image processing application [2]-[4] including character extractions [5][6]. Further, the CNN can be utilized to produce
some kinds of pattern generation [7][8].
The humans retina have an ability distinguishing colors and consist of three types of cells called “cone” responding to
the three primary colors and a cell called “rod” responding to the amount of light. The humans can recognize colors by thefunction of the cone cells. Roska et al. have proposed a concept using a three-layer CNN processing the three primary colors
in [9]. They have confirmed that the three-layer CNN could produce half-toned images of color images. However, after theirpioneering work, there have not been many researches on the CNN dealing with three primary colors of the image effectively.
In the previous study, we proposed the three-layer cellular neural network considering three primary colors (RGB-CNN) [10].
In our RGB-CNN, the connections between the three layers play an important role. Namely, the three layers do not operate
independently but all the outputs influence to the other layers.
In this study, we investigate the output characteristics of the RGB-CNN in detail with various color images.
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