A GA-FUZZY Approach to Evolve Hopfield Type Optimum Networks for Object Extraction

  • Authors:
  • Susmita Ghosh;Ashish Ghosh

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • AFSS '02 Proceedings of the 2002 AFSS International Conference on Fuzzy Systems. Calcutta: Advances in Soft Computing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Earlier attempts are made to design Hopfield type neural network architecture for object extraction using Genetic Algorithms (GAs). Energy value of the neural network was taken as the index of fitness of the GA. In the present article fuzzy logic reasoning is incorporated into this Neuro-GA hybrid framework to remove some of the drawbacks of earlier attempts. Here, GAs have been used to evolve Hopfield type optimum neural network architecture for object background classification. Each chromosome of the GA represents an architecture. The output status of the neurons at the converged state of the network is viewed as a fuzzy set and measure of fuzziness of this set is taken as a measure of fitness of the chromosome. The best chromosome of the final generation represents the optimum network configuration. When the input images are less noisy, the evolved networks are found to have less (compared to the corresponding energy based objective evaluation) connectivity for providing comparable outputs.