Course Description

Neural Networks is a one semester course (winter semester) intended for undergraduate students at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb.

Syllabus

Biological neural networks. Artificial neural networks. Definition. Neuron models. Activation function. Network topologies. Learning process. Correlation-matrix memory. Perceptron. Least-mean-square algorithm. Multilayer perceptron. Radial-basis function network. Recurrent networks. Hopfield network. Simulated annealing. Self-organizing networks. Hebbian learning. Oja's rule. Principal component analysis. Competitive learning. Kohonen feature mapping network. Evolutionary strategies. Genetic algorithms. Software for neural networks. Applications.

Staff

Instructor is Professor Sven Lončarić. The teaching assistant is Hrvoje Kalinić.