PLANNING AND PROGRAM SYNTHESIS ,
- STRUCTURING OF REFERENCE TECHNIQUES ,
- AUTOMATIC ADAPTATION AND ENHANCEMENT ,
- INFERENCE UNDER CONDITIONS OF CONFLICTING AND UNCERTAIN KNOWLEDGE ,
- THE IMPACT OF KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION ON INFERENCE TECHNIQUES .
RELATED TO :
- HIGHER LEVEL IMPLEMENTATION LANGUAGES FOR KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND INFERENCE ,
- ADAPTATION OF FORMALISMS FOR REAL-WORLD KNOWLEDGE TO PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION LANGUAGES FOR KBS ,
- LANGUAGES AND ENVIRONMENTS FOR CONCURRENT PROCESSING AND FOR THE INTEGRATION OF FORMAL , STRUCTURED " SOFTWARE ENGINEERING " WITH KBS REQUIREMENTS .
RELATED TO :
- CONCEPTS , ALGORITHMS AND TECHNIQUES TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROGRAMS AND MACHINES WHICH LEARN ,
- IDENTIFICATION OF APPROPRIATE MODELS OF LEARNING ,
- INVESTIGATION OF LEARNING TECHNIQUES APPROPRIATE FOR AIP SYSTEMS ,
- CAPABILITIES OF AN ARTIFICIAL SYSTEM TO MEASURE ITS OWN PERFORMANCE AND TO IMPROVE SUCH PERFORMANCE .
R AND D AREA 3.2 :
EXTERNAL INTERFACES
DESCRIPTION
IN THE PAST , FACTS ABOUT THE REAL WORLD HAVE LARGELY BEEN REPRESENTED TO A COMPUTER SYSTEM AT SECOND-HAND BY PEOPLE . THE DATA FED IN HAD TO POSSESS A FORMAL STRUCTURE THAT NEEDED TO BE CAREFULLY SPECIFIED TO THE SYSTEM . THIS SITUATION WILL CHANGE .
TWO TYPES OF EXTERNAL INTERFACE WILL OCCUR . THOSE THAT EXTRACT THEIR INFORMATION BY DIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH HUMANS , AND THOSE THAT ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE BY MEANS OF THEIR SENSORS . IN EITHER CASE THE SYSTEM WILL NEED TO PROCESS THE SIGNALS AND INTERPRET THEIR SIGNIFICANCE . OTHER IMPORTANT ASPECTS CONCERN THE PRESENTATION OF THE RESULTS BY THE SYSTEM TO A HUMAN , AND THE USER-FRIENDLINESS OF THE SYSTEM FROM A HUMAN USERS POINT OF VIEW .
R AND D TOPICS
WORK IN THIS AREA FALLS UNDER TWO MAIN HEADINGS :
3.2.1 . : BASIC SIGNAL ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION
- ADVANCED ALGORITHMS AND ARCHITECTURES FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING ,
- STUDY OF PATTERN ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES ,
- OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING ,
- MULTI-SENSOR SIGNAL PROCESSING .
3.2.2 . : RECOGNITION OF SPECIFIC SIGNALS
- SIGNAL UNDERSTANDING ,
- HANDWRITING ,
- SPEECH ,
- TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEMS WITH NATURAL QUALITY ,
- OBJECT AND MOVEMENT ANALYSIS ,
- HUMAN PERCEPTION ,
- PICTURE SYNTHESIS .
TYPE A PROJECTS
3.2.1 . BASIC SIGNAL ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION
THE FIRST LAYERS OF A SIGNAL UNDERSTANDING SYSTEM WILL CONSIST OF PREPROCESSING AND FEATURE EXTRACTION ( E . G . FILTERING , IDENTIFICATION , ETC . ) . IN MANY CASES THIS WILL HAVE TO BE CARRIED OUT IN REAL-TIME . IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THIS , NEW ALGORITHMIC STRUCTURES AND HARDWARE WILL NEED TO BE DEVELOPED . SUCH APPLICATIONS AS IMAGE PROCESSING WILL REQUIRE LARGE BANDWIDTHS AND HIGHLY PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES , AND HENCE VLSI PLAYS AN IMPORTANT PART IN THE PROGRAMME .
PATTERN ANALYSIS IS THE BASIS OF SIGNAL RECOGNITION FOLLOWING FEATURE EXTRACTION AND THEREFORE IS A VITAL PART OF A SIGNAL UNDERSTANDING SYSTEM . THERE IS A NEED TO IMPROVE AND EXTEND THE TECHNIQUES FOR PATTERN ANALYSIS . WORK IS PROPOSED IN THREE TOPICS :