Modern Approaches in Machine Learning and Cognitive Science : A Walkthrough: Latest Trends in AI

This book discusses various machine learning & cognitive science approaches, presenting high-throughput research by experts in this area. Bringing together machine learning, cognitive science and other aspects of artificial intelligence to help provide a roadmap for future research on intelligent systems, the book is a valuable reference resource for students, researchers and industry practitioners wanting to keep abreast of recent developments in this dynamic, exciting and profitable research field. It is intended for postgraduate students, researchers, scholars and developers who are interested in machine learning and cognitive research, and is also suitable for senior undergraduate courses in related topics. Further, it is useful for practitioners dealing with advanced data processing, applied mathematicians, developers of software for agent-oriented systems and developers of embedded and real-time systems.

Dr. Jacek Zurada (SM’85, F’96, LF’14) is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Computational Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA, where he served as the Department Chair and a Distinguished University Scholar. He was a Professor at Princeton University, Northeastern University, Auburn University, the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Chile, Santiago, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, the Marie Curie University, Paris, France, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich.

Balasubramanian Raman has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee since 2013. He obtained his M.Sc. degree in Mathematics from Madras Christian College (University of Madras) in 1996 and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2001. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Missouri Columbia, USA, in 2001–2002 and a Postdoctoral Associate at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA, in 2002–2003. He joined the Department of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee as a Lecturer in 2004 and became an Assistant Professor in 2006 and Associate Professor in 2012. He was a Visiting Professor and a member of the Computer Vision and Sensing Systems Laboratory at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Windsor, Canada, in May–August 2009. He has published more than 190 papers in leading journals and conferences. His area of research includes vision geometry, digital watermarking using mathematical transformations, image fusion, biometrics and secure image transmission over wireless channels, content-basedimage retrieval and hyperspectral imaging.