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Hierarchical Temporal Memory as a Means for Image Recognition by Wesley Bruning CHEM/CSE 597D Final Project Presentation December 10, 2008 The Grand Scheme A free, on-line resource that allows anyone to find information about symbols; a compendium of symbols, their names, meanings, and histories. Symbols? Yes, symbols! The Star of David (hexagram), the Greek symbol Sigma, the Masonic compass, the Wheel of Dharma, the bass clef, company logos, et cetera Would fill a niche, but a relatively easy enough niche to fill, and one that should be filled sometime. Not for profit. The Neat Feature Users can search for symbols by drawing or uploading pictures. “What does this mean?” The server(s) will house a program that receives the image and determines which symbol in the database the user desires. Image recognition. Computer Vision Visual pattern recognition, like understanding language and physically manipulating objects, is difficult for computers. There are no viable algorithms for performing these functions on a computer.1 For humans, these are easy. 1 J. Hawkins and D. George, “Hierarchical Temporal Memory – Concepts, Theory, and Terminology,” Whitepaper, Numenta Inc. A Couple of Existing Models “Classic” artificial neural networks At least 3 layers of nodes Bayesian networks Directed acyclic graph Hierarchical Temporal Memory Abbreviated HTM. A novel machine learning paradigm. Can be considered a type of artificial neural network, but the founding principles differ. (I will only discuss the higher-level concepts of HTM—not its learning algorithms and the like) Why HTM? Its rather new/untested. Has already shown promising results in the area of visual pattern recognition. Biologically inspired. The Biological Inspiration HTM is based on a hierarchical theory of the human brains neocortex and thalamus; it seeks to replicate their biological functions. A top-down solution that models the brain as a “device that computes by performing sophisticated pattern matching a