Neocortex and Invariant Feature Recognition

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5072909750350711787&q=user%3A%22Google+engEDU%22&total=76&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2

Lots of good stuff in here.

Thomas Dean: http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/faculty/tld.html

Linsker on Organizational Principles in the Brain

Ralph speaks about 49:00 into the video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=200924984898632631&q=almaden+cognitive+computing&total=18&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

IBM page:
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/institute/2006/bio/2006/?linsker

Hanson on Robotics

Here is a podcast talking with David Hanson about his robotics company and his perspectives on the future:
http://lis.epfl.ch/resources/podcast/2007/06/david-hanson-human-like-social-robots.html

I'm a big fan of his work and enjoy hearing his outlook on the near future.


http://www.hansonrobotics.com/

Here is a lecture on a hierarchical learning algorithm inspired by neocortical design:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7512275382500312900&q=user%3A%22Google+engEDU%22

By Tom Dean at Brown.

Great video on voice recognition

I saw a great video on voice recognition research that I post here to remember the reference:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1131332207960335088&q=user%3A%22Google+engEDU%22&hl=en

I definitely think this guy understands the problem correctly. I've often wondered about the early transformation of speech signals and I'd like to study his research more.

Speaker Roy Patterson: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~roy/
STRAIGHT vocoder: http://www.wakayama-u.ac.jp/~kawahara/STRAIGHTadv/index_e.html