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@INPROCEEDINGS{Saxena-97.2,
                      author = {Saxena, Indu and Moerland, Perry and Fiesler, Emile and Pourzand, A. R. and Collings, N.},
                    projects = {Idiap},
                       title = {An Optical Thresholding Perceptron},
                   booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Optics and Computer Science},
                        year = {1997},
                    location = {Geneva, Switzerland},
                        note = {IDIAP-RR 97-16},
                    crossref = {saxena-97.2a},
                    abstract = {An implementation of an optical perceptron with a soft optical threshold trained with an adapted BP algorithm is described as a precursor to an optical multilayer perceptron (MLP). It has 64 inputs and ten outputs. The soft threshold is implemented by a liquid crystal light valve. Experimental results on perceptron recall are also reported. The effect of a modified grey-scale to weight mapping for weight levels implemented by LCTVs is evaluated based on the results of handwritten digit recognition.},
                         pdf = {https://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/1997/rr97-16.pdf},
                  postscript = {ftp://ftp.idiap.ch/pub/reports/1997/rr97-16.ps.gz},
ipdmembership={learning},
}



crossreferenced publications: 
@TECHREPORT{Saxena-97.2a,
                      author = {Saxena, Indu and Moerland, Perry and Fiesler, Emile and Pourzand, A. R. and Collings, N.},
                    projects = {Idiap},
                       title = {An Optical Thresholding Perceptron},
                        type = {Idiap-RR},
                      number = {Idiap-RR-16-1997},
                        year = {1997},
                 institution = {IDIAP},
                        note = {Published in ``Proceedings of the Workshop on Optics and Computer Science''},
                    abstract = {An implementation of an optical perceptron with a soft optical threshold trained with an adapted BP algorithm is described as a precursor to an optical multilayer perceptron (MLP). It has 64 inputs and ten outputs. The soft threshold is implemented by a liquid crystal light valve. Experimental results on perceptron recall are also reported. The effect of a modified grey-scale to weight mapping for weight levels implemented by LCTVs is evaluated based on the results of handwritten digit recognition.},
                         pdf = {https://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/1997/rr97-16.pdf},
                  postscript = {ftp://ftp.idiap.ch/pub/reports/1997/rr97-16.ps.gz},
ipdmembership={learning},
}