Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 2004
29 August - 1 September 2004, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK

BICS2004: Biologically Inspired Systems - Contributed Papers and Posters

Session BIS1: Audition and Robotics

BIS1.1 Prof Gerald Langner Temporal processing in the auditory system
BIS1.2 Prof Leslie Smith, Dagmar Fraser Onsets: an element of ecological sound interpretation
BIS1.3 Ms Natasha Chia, Dr Steve Collins Biologically inspired binaural analogue signal processing
BIS1.4 Dr Steve Potter, Thomas B. DeMarse, Douglas J. Bakkum, Mark C. Booth, John R. Brumfield, Zenas Chao, Radhika Madhavan, Peter A. Passaro, Komal Rambani, Alexander C. Shkolnik, R. Blythe Towal, Daniel A. Wagenaar HYBROTS: hybrids of living neurons and robots for studying neural computation
BIS1.5 Dr Emilia Barakova Familiarity gated learning for inferential use of episodic memories in novel situations - a robot simulation
BIS1.6 Mr Anthony Meehan, Mr. Jason Garforth, Dr. Sue McHale Executive Attention and Action Selection in a Neurally Controlled Simulated Robot
BIS1.7 Ms Yi Chen, Prof Juyang Weng A Case Study of Developmental Robotics in Understanding "Object Permanence"

Session BIS2: Vision1: Neuromorphic Approaches

BIS2.1 Dr Jordi Madrenas, Jordi Cosp, Oscar Lucas, Eduard Alarcón, Eva Vidal, Gerard Villar Architecture and Basic Blocks of a Neuromorphic Analogue VLSI Vision System
BIS2.2 Ms Chiara Bartolozzi, Giacomo Indiveri A neuromorphic selective attention architecture with dynamic synapses and integrate-and-fire neurons
BIS2.3 Mr Kimihiro Nishio, Hiroo Yonezu, Yuzo Furukawa Analog two-dimensional network for motion detection
BIS2.4 Mr Kazuhiro Shimonomura, Tetsuya Yagi An orientation selective multi-chip aVLSI system for parallel image processing
BIS2.5 Dr Margarita Kuzmina, Eduard Manykin Biologically motivated oscillatory network model for dynamical image segmentation

Session BIS3: Vision 2

BIS3.1 Claudio Castellanos Sánchez, Bernard Girau, Frédéric Alexandre A connectionist approach for visual perception of motion
BIS3.2 Mr Sinan Kalkan, Dirk Calow, Michael Felsberg, Florentin Worgotter, Markus Lappe, Norbert Krueger Optic Flow Statistics and Intrinsic Dimensionality
BIS3.3 Mr Shu-Fai Wong, Kwan-Yee Kenneth Wong Neurally Inspired Object Tracking System

Session BIS4: Vision 3

BIS4.1 Dr Zhijun Yang, Alan F. Murray, Vision Coincidence Detection with STDP Adaptation for Object Recognition and Depth Analysis
BIS4.2 Mr Venkateswaran Nagarajan, R Chidambareswaran, B. Harish A novel perspective into the neuronal encoding along the retinal pathway employing time-frequency transformation: part 1 — for object
BIS4.3 Mr Venkateswaran Nagarajan, B. Harish, R Chidambareswaran A novel perspective into the neuronal encoding along the retinal pathway employing time-frequency transformation: part 2 — for color

Session BIS5: Neural Modelling

BIS5.1 Mr Gregor Kiddie, Dr Arjen van Ooyen, Dr Bruce Graham Biologically Plausible Model of Growing Neurites
BIS5.2 Dr Stéphane Binczak, M. S. Jacquir, Prof. J.M. Bilbault, V.B. Kazantsev and V.I. Nekorkin Unilateral coupling between two MFHN electronic neurons
BIS5.3 Dr Laura Bonzano, Marco Bove, Prof. Sergio Martinoia Effects of NMDA and non-NMDA receptors antagonists on the behavior of cultured cortical networks
BIS5.4 Mr Eilif Mueller, Prof Karlheinz Meier, Dr Johannes Schemmel Methods for Simulating High-Conductance States in Neural Microcircuits
BIS5.5 Dr Valery Tereshko, Alexander N. Pisarchik Controlling the cortex state transitions by altering the oscillation energy

Session BIS6: Neuromorphic and spiking networks: BSS

BIS6.1 Mr Qingxiang Wu, T. M McGinnity, LP Maguire, B Glackin and A Belatreche Supervised Training of Spiking Neural Networks with Weight Limitation Constraints
BIS6.2 Ms Sunny Bains Extending neuromorphic engineering beyond electronics
BIS6.3 Dr Tim Pearce, Thomas J. Koickalb, Carlo Fulvi-Maria, James A. Covington, Forest S. Tan, Julian W. Gardner, Alister Hamilton Silicon-based neuromorphic olfactory pathway implementation
BIS6.4 Dr Derek Linkens, Ching-Hua Ting, Wei-Hao Wu, A Angel Optimising the connectivity coefficients in the somatosensory pathway using Genetic Algorithms
BIS6.5 Dr Motoaki Kawanabe New algorithms for blind separation when sources have spatial variance dependencies

Session BIS7: Novel approaches

BIS7.1 Mr Philip Zeman, N. J. Livingston, W. H. Hook and P. F. Driessen Creation of a custom basis for detection of a neural physiological event in EEG
BIS7.2 Dr Gerd Heinz Interference Networks - a Physical, Structural and Behavioural Approach to Nerve System
BIS7.3 Prof Naohiro Ishii, Dr.Toshinori Deguchi, Prof. Hiroshi Sasaki Biological Asymmetric and Parallel-Symmetric Neural Networks with Nonlinear Functions
BIS7.4 Mr Venkateswaran Nagarajan, R Rajesh Partitioned Parallel Processing Approach for Predicting Multi-Million Neuron Interconnectivity in the Brain : Involving Soma-Axon-Dendrites-Synapse

Session BIS8: Biologically Inspired Systems Posters

BIS8.1 (poster P4) Dr Eduardo Ros Vidal, Sonia Mota, Javier Díaz Neural multilayer structure for motion pattern segmentation
BIS8.2 (poster P5) Dr Toshinori Deguchi, Naohiro Ishii On Refractoriness of Chaotic Neurons in Incremental Learning
BIS8.3 (poster P6) Mr Nicolas Pugeault, Florentin Woegoetter, Norbert Krueger Grouping Over Stereo for Visual Cues Disambiguation
BIS8.4 (poster P7) Mr Matthew Hartley, Neill Taylor and Prof John Taylor Modelling STDP: sequence learning and recall
BIS8.5 (poster P8) Ms Milana Mileusnic, Gerald E. Loeb How your brain knows where your hand is
BIS8.6 (poster P9) Dr. V. Tereshko Development of retinotopy and ocular dominance by soft topology-preserving maps and elastic nets: Deriving one class of the models from another

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