NC² New Challenges in Neural Computation (NC2)
Workshop of the GI-Fachgruppe Neuronale Netze and the German Neural Networks Society in connection to GCPR 2013, Saarbrücken

Workshop program

The duration of the regular talks is limited to 15 min for long papers and 10 min for short papers to allow time for discussions. Please address open problems, questions, challenges, directions of future research, failures of the approach and similar in the presentations to raise discussions rather than giving a standard conference presentation.
9:00-9:10 Opening
9:10-10:30 Data analysis
Jens Hocke, Thomas Martinetz: Application of Maximum Distance Minimization to Gene Expression Data (short paper)
Alexander Grigorievskiy, Anton Akusok, Marjo Tarvainen, Anne-Mari Ventelä, Amaury Lendasse: Practical Estimation of Missing Phosphorus Values in Pyhaejaervi Lake Data
Peter Sarlin: Replacing the time dimension: A Self-Organizing Time Map over any variable
Anton Akusok, Alexander Grigorievskiy, Amaury Lendasse, Yoan Miche: Image-based Classification of Websites
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Vision and robotics
Marvin Struwe, Stephan Hasler, Ute Bauer-Wersing: Combining Multiple Classifiers and Context Information for Detecting Objects under Real-world Occlusion Patterns
Martin Meier, Robert Haschke, Helge Ritter: Anticipating Intentions as Gestalt Formation: A Model Based on Neural Competition
Sven Hellbach, Frank Bahrmann, Marc Donner, Marian Himstedt, Mathias Klingner, Johannes Fonfara, Peter Poschmann, Richard Schmidt, Hans-Joachim Boehme: Learning as an Essential Ingredient for a Tour Guide Robot
Johannes Fonfara, Sven Hellbach, Hans-Joachim Boehme: Learning Dialog Management for a Tour Guide Robot Using Museum Visitor Simulation
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-14:50 Keynote talk
Prof. Dr. Udo Seiffert (Fraunhofer IFF, Magdeburg): Challenges of high-dimensional data analysis from the application's perspective
14:50-15:30 Prior knowledge integration
Marika Kaden, Thomas Villmann: A Framework for Optimization of Statistical Classification Measures Based on Generalized Learning Vector Quantization
Alexander Schulz, Andrej Gisbrecht, Barbara Hammer: Classifier inspection based on different discriminative dimensionality reductions
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:45 Local and sparse models
Slobodan Vukanovic, Alexander Schulz, Robert Haschke, Helge Ritter: Learning the Appropriate Model Population Structures for Locally Weighted Regression
Lluís Belanche: Learning in Networks of Similarity Processing Neurons
Maximilian Panzner, Oliver Beyer, Philipp Cimiano: Human Activity Classification with Online Growing Neural Gas
David Nebel, Thomas Villmann: About the Equivalence of Robust Soft Learning Vector Quantization and Soft Nearest Prototype Classification
Henry Schütze, Erhardt Barth, Thomas Martinetz: Learning Orthogonal Bases for k-Sparse Representations (short paper)
17:45 Nomination of the best presentation award and closing
17:45-18:15 Meeting of the GI Fachgruppe Neuronale Netze
18:15-18:45 Meeting of the GNNS
starting from 18:00 Welcome reception of GCPR

Proceedings

The workshop proceedings are available online in the series Machine Learning Reports.

Venue

The workshop takes place at the Campus of Saarland University, building E1.3, room 016.

Registration

Registration to the workshop is available via the GCPR 2013 webpage.

ENNS The workshop is sponsored by the European Neural Networks Society and by the CITEC centre of excellence CITEC: Cognitive Interaction Technology - Center of Excellence

Barbara Hammer