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A flow processing facility, which uses a set of artificial neurons for pattern recognition, such as a self-organizing map, in order to provide security and protection to a computer or computer system supports unified threat management based at least in part on patterns relevant to a variety of types of threats that relate to computer systems, including computer networks. Flow processing for switching, security, and other network applications, including a facility that processes a data flow to address patterns relevant to a variety of conditions are directed at internal network security, virtualization, and web connection security. A flow processing facility for inspecting payloads of network traffic packets detects security threats and intrusions across accessible layers of the IP-stack by applying content matching and behavioral anomaly detection techniques based on regular expression matching and self-organizing maps. Exposing threats and intrusions within packet payload at or near real-time rates enhances network security from both external and internal sources while ensuring security policy is rigorously applied to data and system resources. Intrusion Detection and Protection (IDP) is provided by a flow processing facility that processes a data flow to address patterns relevant to a variety of types of network and data integrity threats that relate to computer systems, including computer networks.

A pattern detecting apparatus has a plurality of hierarchized neuron elements to detect a predetermined pattern included in input patterns. Pulse signals output from the plurality of neuron elements are given specific delays by synapse circuits associated with the individual elements. This makes it possible to transmit the pulse signals to the neuron elements of the succeeding layer through a common bus line so that they can be identified on a time base. The neuron elements of the succeeding layer output the pulse signals at output levels based on a arrival time pattern of the plurality of pulse signals received from the plurality of neuron elements of the preceding layer within a predetermined time window. Thus, the reliability of pattern detection can be improved, and the number of wires interconnecting the elements can be reduced by the use of the common bus line, leading to a small scale of circuit and reduced power consumption.

An artificial neural network calculating device for sparse connection comprises a mapping unit used for converting input data into the storage mode that input nerve cells and weight values correspond one by one, a storage unit used for storing data and instructions, and an operation unit used for executing corresponding operation on the data according to the instructions. The operation unit mainly executes three steps of operation, wherein in the first step, the input nerve cells and weight value data are multiplied; in the second step, addition tree operation is executed, the weighted output nerve cells processed in the first step are added level by level through an addition tree, or the output nerve cells are added with offset to obtain offset-added output nerve cells; in the third step, activation function operation is executed, and the final output nerve cells are obtained. By means of the device, the problems that the operation performance of a CPU and a GPU is insufficient, and the expenditure of front end coding is large are solved, support to a multi-layer artificial neural network operation algorithm is effectively improved, and the problem that memory bandwidth becomes a bottleneck of multi-layer artificial neural network operation and the performance of a training algorithm of the multi-layer artificial neural network operation is solved.

An artificial neural network device that utilizes one or more non-volatile memory arrays as the synapses. The synapses are configured to receive inputs and to generate therefrom outputs. Neurons are configured to receive the outputs. The synapses include a plurality of memory cells, wherein each of the memory cells includes spaced apart source and drain regions formed in a semiconductor substrate with a channel region extending there between, a floating gate disposed over and insulated from a first portion of the channel region and a non-floating gate disposed over and insulated from a second portion of the channel region. Each of the plurality of memory cells is configured to store a weight value corresponding to a number of electrons on the floating gate. The plurality of memory cells are configured to multiply the inputs by the stored weight values to generate the outputs.

A method for securing an IT (information technology) system using a set of methods for knowledge extraction, event detection, risk estimation and explanation for ranking cyber-alerts which includes a method to explain the relationship (or an attack pathway) from an entity (user or host) and an event context to another entity (a high-value resource) and an event context (attack or service failure).

The invention discloses a human face super-resolution reconstruction method based on a generative adversarial network and sub-pixel convolution, and the method comprises the steps: A, carrying out the preprocessing through a normally used public human face data set, and making a low-resolution human face image and a corresponding high-resolution human face image training set; B, constructing the generative adversarial network for training, adding a sub-pixel convolution to the generative adversarial network to achieve the generation of a super-resolution image and introduce a weighted type loss function comprising feature loss; C, sequentially inputting a training set obtained at step A into a generative adversarial network model for modeling training, adjusting the parameters, and achieving the convergence; D, carrying out the preprocessing of a to-be-processed low-resolution human face image, inputting the image into the generative adversarial network model, and obtaining a high-resolution image after super-resolution reconstruction. The method can achieve the generation of a corresponding high-resolution image which is clearer in human face contour, is more specific in detail and is invariable in features. The method improves the human face recognition accuracy, and is better in human face super-resolution reconstruction effect.

A system and method for characterizing a pattern, in which a spiking neural network having at least one layer of neurons is provided. The spiking neural network has a plurality of connected neurons for transmitting signals between the connected neurons. A model for inducing spiking in the neurons is specified. Each neuron is connected to a global regulating unit for transmitting signals between the neuron and the global regulating unit. Each neuron is connected to at least one other neuron for transmitting signals from this neuron to the at least one other neuron, this neuron and the at least one other neuron being on the same layer. Spiking of each neuron is synchronized according to a number of active neurons connected to the neuron. At least one pattern is submitted to the spiking neural network for generating sequences of spikes in the spiking neural network, the sequences of spikes (i) being modulated over time by the synchronization of the spiking and (ii) being regulated by the global regulating unit. The at least one pattern is characterized according to the sequences of spikes generated in the spiking neural network.

A system and related method for identifying a trigger event to a patient health-related exacerbation. The system includes at least one sensor configured to collect data related to the patient health-related exacerbation, an analyzer configured to validate the collected data, a patient interface device configured to receive patient inputs to at least one question, and an identifier device configured to receive the patient inputs and collected data and identify the trigger event. The system may also include an expert system configured to receive the patient inputs and the validated collected data and identify a primary patient disease, and a reporting device configured to generate reports related to the identified primary patient disease, patient inputs, and sensed patient conditions.

The invention relates to a visual recognition and positioning method for robot intelligent capture application. According to the method, an RGB-D scene image is collected, a supervised and trained deep convolutional neural network is utilized to recognize the category of a target contained in a color image and a corresponding position region, the pose state of the target is analyzed in combinationwith a deep image, pose information needed by a controller is obtained through coordinate transformation, and visual recognition and positioning are completed. Through the method, the double functions of recognition and positioning can be achieved just through a single visual sensor, the existing target detection process is simplified, and application cost is saved. Meanwhile, a deep convolutional neural network is adopted to obtain image features through learning, the method has high robustness on multiple kinds of environment interference such as target random placement, image viewing anglechanging and illumination background interference, and recognition and positioning accuracy under complicated working conditions is improved. Besides, through the positioning method, exact pose information can be further obtained on the basis of determining object spatial position distribution, and strategy planning of intelligent capture is promoted.

Systems and methods are provided for training an artificial intelligence system including the use of one or more human subject responses to stimuli as input to the artificial intelligence system. Displays are oriented to the human subjects to present the stimuli to the human subjects. Detectors monitor the reaction of the human subjects to the stimuli, the detectors including at least motion detectors, the detectors providing an output. An analysis system is coupled to receive the output of the detectors, the analysis system provides an output corresponding to whether the reaction of the human subjects was positive or negative. A neural network utilizes the output of the analysis system, generating a positive weighting for training of the neural network when the output of the analysis system was positive, and a negative weighting for training of the neural network when the output of the analysis system was negative.

Systems and techniques are provided for tracking puts and takes of inventory items by subjects in an area of real space. A plurality of cameras with overlapping fields of view produce respective sequences of images of corresponding fields of view in the real space. In one embodiment, the system includes first image processors, including subject image recognition engines, receiving corresponding sequences of images from the plurality of cameras. The first image processors process images to identify subjects represented in the images in the corresponding sequences of images. The system includes second image processors, including background image recognition engines, receiving corresponding sequences of images from the plurality of cameras. The second image processors mask the identified subjects to generate masked images. Following this, the second image processors process the masked images to identify and classify background changes represented in the images in the corresponding sequences of images.

The invention discloses an attention CNNs and CCR-based text sentiment analysis method and belongs to the field of natural language processing. The method comprises the following steps of 1, training a semantic word vector and a sentiment word vector by utilizing original text data and performing dictionary word vector establishment by utilizing a collected sentiment dictionary; 2, capturing context semantics of words by utilizing a long-short-term memory (LSTM) network to eliminate ambiguity; 3, extracting local features of a text in combination with convolution kernels with different filtering lengths by utilizing a convolutional neural network; 4, extracting global features by utilizing three different attention mechanisms; 5, performing artificial feature extraction on the original text data; 6, training a multimodal uniform regression target function by utilizing the local features, the global features and artificial features; and 7, performing sentiment polarity prediction by utilizing a multimodal uniform regression prediction method. Compared with a method adopting a single word vector, a method only extracting the local features of the text, or the like, the text sentiment analysis method can further improve the sentiment classification precision.

An apparatus and method for radar based gesture detection. The apparatus includes a processing element and a transmitter configured to transmit radar signals. The transmitter is coupled to the processing element. The apparatus further includes a plurality of receivers configured to receive radar signal reflections, where the plurality of receivers is coupled to the processing element. The transmitter and plurality of receivers are configured for short range radar and the processing element is configured to detect a hand gesture based on the radar signal reflections received by the plurality of receivers.

Apparatus and methods for efficient synaptic update in a network such as a spiking neural network. In one embodiment, the post-synaptic updates, in response to generation of a post-synaptic pulse by a post-synaptic unit, are delayed until a subsequent pre-synaptic pulse is received by the unit. Pre-synaptic updates are performed first following by the post-synaptic update, thus ensuring synaptic connection status is up-to-date. The delay update mechanism is used in conjunction with system “flush” events in order to ensure accurate network operation, and prevent loss of information under a variety of pre-synaptic and post-synaptic unit firing rates. A large network partition mechanism is used in one variant with network processing apparatus in order to enable processing of network signals in a limited functionality embedded hardware environment.

Object recognition apparatus and methods useful for extracting information from an input signal. In one embodiment, the input signal is representative of an element of an image, and the extracted information is encoded into patterns of pulses. The patterns of pulses are directed via transmission channels to a plurality of detector nodes configured to generate an output pulse upon detecting an object of interest. Upon detecting a particular object, a given detector node elevates its sensitivity to that particular object when processing subsequent inputs. In one implementation, one or more of the detector nodes are also configured to prevent adjacent detector nodes from generating detection signals in response to the same object representation. The object recognition apparatus modulates properties of the transmission channels by promoting contributions from channels carrying information used in object recognition.

The invention relates to an intelligent and automatic delineation method for a gross tumor volume and organs at risk, which includes the following steps: (1) tumor multi-modal (mode) image reconstruction, de-noising, enhancement, registration, fusion and other preprocessing; (2) automatic extraction of tumor image features: automatically extracting one or more pieces of tumor image group (texture feature spectrum) information from CT, CBCT, MRI, PET and/or ultrasonic multi-modal (mode) tumor medical image data; and (3) intelligently and automatically delineating a gross tumor volume and organs at risk through deep learning, machine learning, artificial intelligence, regional growing, the graph theory (random walk), a geometric level set, and/or a statistical theory method. A gross tumor volume (GTV) and organs at risk (OAR) can be delineated with high precision.