In this section, we will demonstrate one technique for classifying visual data. We will use Neuroph to accomplish this. Neuroph is a Java-based neural network framework that supports a variety of neural network architectures. Its open source library provides support and plugins for other applications. In this example, we will use its neural network editor, Neuroph Studio, to create a network. This network can be saved and used in other applications. Neuroph Studio is available for download here: http://neuroph.sourceforge.net/download.html. We are building upon the process shown here: http://neuroph.sourceforge.net/image_recognition.htm.
For our example, we will create a Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) network. We will then train our network to recognize images. We can both train and test our network using Neuroph Studio. It is important to understand how MLP networks recognize and interpret image data. Every image is basically represented by three two-dimensional arrays...