Processing short-term and long-term information with a combination of polynomial approximation techniques and time-delay neural networks

  • Authors:
  • Erich Fuchs;Christian Gruber;Tobias Reitmaier;Bernhard Sick

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Informatics and Mathematics, University of Passau, Passau, Germany;Elektrobit, Munich, Germany;Faculty of Informatics and Mathematics, University of Passau, Passau, Germany;Faculty of Informatics and Mathematics, University of Passau, Passau, Germany

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Neural networks are often used to process temporal information, i.e., any kind of information related to time series. In many cases, time series contain short-term and long-term trends or behavior. This paper presents a new approach to capture temporal information with various reference periods simultaneously. A least squares approximation of the time series with orthogonal polynomials will be used to describe short-term trends contained in a signal (average, increase, curvature, etc.). Long-term behavior will be modeled with the tapped delay lines of a time-delay neural network (TDNN). This network takes the coefficients of the orthogonal expansion of the approximating polynomial as inputs such considering short-term and long-term information efficiently. The advantages of the method will be demonstrated by means of artificial data and two real-world application examples, the prediction of the user number in a computer network and online tool wear classification in turning.