This reference offers information on all aspects of each important component of ATM, the dominant telecommunications technology. The book shows how ATM can inter-network several incompatible telecommunications technologies and provide the high-speed, high bandwidth backbone network to which the entire telecommunications industry is converging. The book aims to provide the reader with an objective and realistic view of ATM technology and outlines the evolutionary development of ATM infrastructure and future deployment. It also presents a concise view to aid telecommunications professionals in...

The addition of artificial network computing to traditional pattern recognition has given rise to a new, different, and more powerful methodology that is presented in this practical guide to the application of artificial neural networks. The material covered in the book is accessible to working engineers with little or no explicit background in neural networks.

Human Face Recognition Using Third-Order Synthetic Neural Networks explores the viability of the application of High-order synthetic neural network technology to transformation-invariant recognition of complex visual patterns. High-order networks require little training data (hence, short training times) and have been used to perform transformation-invariant recognition of relatively simple visual patterns, achieving very high recognition rates. The successful results of these methods provided inspiration to address more practical problems which have grayscale as...