Table Of ContentLecture Notes in Computer Science 4984
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CarnegieMellonUniversity,Pittsburgh,PA,USA
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UniversityofSurrey,Guildford,UK
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CornellUniversity,Ithaca,NY,USA
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Max-PlanckInstituteofComputerScience,Saarbruecken,Germany
Masumi Ishikawa Kenji Doya
Hiroyuki Miyamoto TakeshiYamakawa (Eds.)
Neural
Information Processing
14th International Conference, ICONIP 2007
Kitakyushu, Japan, November 13-16, 2007
Revised Selected Papers, Part I
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Preface
These two-volume books comprise the post-conference proceedings of the 14th
InternationalConferenceonNeuralInformationProcessing(ICONIP2007)held
in Kitakyushu, Japan, during November 13–16, 2007. The Asia Pacific Neural
Network Assembly (APNNA) was founded in 1993. The first ICONIP was held
in 1994 in Seoul, Korea, sponsored by APNNA in collaboration with regional
organizations.Since then, ICONIP has consistently providedprestigious oppor-
tunities for presenting and exchanging ideas on neural networks and related
fields. Research fields covered by ICONIP have now expanded to include such
fields as bioinformatics, brain machine interfaces, robotics, and computational
intelligence.
We had 288 ordinary paper submissions and 3 special organizedsession pro-
posals.Although the quality of submitted papers on the averagewas exception-
ally high, only 60% of them were accepted after rigorous reviews, each paper
being reviewedby three reviewers.Concerningspecialorganizedsessionpropos-
als,twooutofthreewereaccepted.Inadditiontoordinarysubmittedpapers,we
invited15specialorganizedsessionsorganizedbyleadingresearchersinemerging
fields to promote future expansion of neural information processing.
ICONIP 2007 was held at the newly established Kitakyushu Science and
Research Park in Kitakyushu, Japan. Its theme was “Towards an Integrated
Approach to the Brain—Brain-Inspired Engineering and Brain Science,” which
emphasizes the need for cross-disciplinary approaches for understanding brain
functions and utilizing the knowledge for contributions to the society. It was
jointly sponsored by APNNA, Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS), and
the 21st century COE program at Kyushu Institute of Technology.
ICONIP2007wascomposedof1keynotespeech,5plenarytalks,4tutorials,
41 oral sessions, 3 poster sessions, 4 demonstrations, and social events such as
the Banquet and InternationalMusic Festival. In all, 382researchersregistered,
and 355 participants joined the conference from 29 countries. In each tutorial,
we had about 60 participants on the average. Five best paper awards and five
studentbestpaperawardsweregrantedtoencourageoutstandingresearchers.To
minimize the number of researchers who cannot present their excellent work at
theconferenceduetofinancialproblems,weprovidedtravelandaccommodation
support of up to JPY 150,000 to six researchers and of up to JPY to eight
students 100,000.
ICONIP 2007 was jointly held with the 4th BrainIT 2007 organized by the
21st century COE program,“World of Brain Computing Interwovenout of An-
imals and Robots,” with the support of the Japanese Ministry of Education,
Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science (JSPS).
VI Preface
We would like to thank Mitsuo Kawato for his superb Keynote Speech, and
Rajesh P.N. Rao, Fr´ed´eric Kaplan, Shin Ishii, Andrew Y. Ng, and Yoshiyuki
Kabashimafortheirstimulatingplenarytalks.WewouldalsoliketothankSven
Buchholz, Eckhard Hitzer, Kanta Tachibana, Jung Wang, Nikhil R. Pal, and
Tetsuo Furukawa for their enlightening tutorial lectures.
We would like to express our deepest appreciation to all the participants for
making the conference really attractive and fruitful through lively discussions,
which we believe would tremendously contribute to the future development of
neuralinformationprocessing.Wealsowishtoacknowledgethecontributionsby
all the Committee members for their devoted work, especially Katsumi Tateno
forhisdedicationasSecretary.Lastbutnotleast,wewanttogivespecialthanks
toIrwinKingandhisstudents,KamTongChanandYiLingWong,forproviding
the submission and reviewing system, Etsuko Futagoishi for hard secretarial
work, Satoshi Sonoh and Shunsuke Sakaguchi for maintaining our conference
server,and many secretaries and graduate students at our department for their
diligent work in running the conference.
January 2008 Masumi Ishikawa
Kenji Doya
Hiroyuki Miyamoto
Takeshi Yamakawa
Organization
Conference Committee Chairs
General Chair Takeshi Yamakawa (Kyushu Institute of
Technology, Japan)
Organizing Committee Chair Shiro Usui (RIKEN, Japan)
Steering Committee Chair Takeshi Yamakawa (Kyushu Institute of
Technology, Japan)
ProgramCo-chairs Masumi Ishikawa (Kyushu Institute of
Technology, Japan), Kenji Doya
(OIST, Japan)
Tutorials Chair Hirokazu Yokoi (Kyushu Institute of
Technology, Japan)
Exhibitions Chair Masahiro Nagamatsu (Kyushu Institute of
Technology, Japan)
Publications Chair Hiroyuki Miyamoto (Kyushu Institute of
Technology, Japan)
Publicity Chair Hideki Nakagawa (Kyushu Institute of
Technology, Japan)
Local Arrangements Chair Satoru Ishizuka (Kyushu Institute of
Technology, Japan)
Web Master TsutomuMiki(KyushuInstituteofTechnology,
Japan)
Secretary Katsumi Tateno (Kyushu Institute of
Technology, Japan)
Steering Committee
Takeshi Yamakawa, Masumi Ishikawa, Hi-
rokazu Yokoi, Masahiro Nagamatsu, Hiroyuki
Miyamoto, Hideki Nakagawa, Satoru Ishizuka,
Tsutomu Miki, Katsumi Tateno
Program Committee
Masumi Ishikawa, Kenji Doya
Track Co-chairs Track 1: Masato Okada (Tokyo Univ.), Yoko
Yamaguchi (RIKEN), Si Wu (Sussex Univ.)
Track 2: Koji Kurata (Univ. of Ryukyus),
Kazushi Ikeda (Kyoto Univ.), Liqing Zhang
(Shanghai Jiaotong Univ.)
VIII Organization
Track3:YuzoHirai(TsukubaUniv.),Yasuharu
Koike (Tokyo Institute of Tech.), J.H. Kim
(Handong Global Univ., Korea)
Track 4: Akira Iwata (Nagoya Institute of
Tech.), Noboru Ohnishi (Nagoya Univ.), Se-
Young Oh (Postech, Korea)
Track5:HidekiAsoh(AIST),ShinIshii(Kyoto
Univ.), Sung-Bae Cho (Yonsei Univ., Korea)
Advisory Board
Shun-ichi Amari(Japan), Sung-Yang Bang (Korea),You-Shou Wu (China), Lei
Xu(HongKong),NikolaKasabov(NewZealand),KunihikoFukushima(Japan),
Tom D. Gedeon (Australia), Soo-Young Lee (Korea), Yixin Zhong (China),
Lipo Wang (Singapore), Nikhil R. Pal (India), Chin-Teng Lin (Taiwan), Lai-
wan Chan (Hong Kong), Jun Wang (Hong Kong), Shuji Yoshizawa (Japan),
Minoru Tsukada (Japan), Takashi Nagano (Japan), Shozo Yasui (Japan)
Referees
S. Akaho S. Gruen S. Koyama
P. Andras K. Hagiwara J.L. Krichmar
T. Aonishi M. Hagiwara H. Kudo
T. Aoyagi K. Hamaguchi T. Kurita
T. Asai R.P. Hasegawa S. Kurogi
H. Asoh H. Hikawa M. Lee
J. Babic Y. Hirai J. Liu
R. Surampudi Bapi K. Horio B-L. Lu
A. Kardec Barros K. Ikeda N. Masuda
J. Cao F. Ishida N. Matsumoto
H. Cateau S. Ishii B. McKay
J-Y. Chang M. Ishikawa K. Meier
S-B. Cho A. Iwata H. Miyamoto
S. Choi K. Iwata Y. Miyawaki
I.F. Chung H. Kadone H. Mochiyama
A.S. Cichocki Y. Kamitani C. Molter
M. Diesmann N. Kasabov T. Morie
K. Doya M. Kawamoto K. Morita
P. Erdi C. Kim M. Morita
H. Fujii E. Kim Y. Morita
N. Fukumura K-J. Kim N. Murata
W-k. Fung S. Kimura H. Nakahara
T. Furuhashi A. Koenig Y. Nakamura
A. Garcez Y. Koike S. Nakauchi
T.D. Gedeon T. Kondo K. Nakayama
Organization IX
K. Niki Y. Sakaguchi N. Ueda
J. Nishii K. Sakai S. Usui
I. Nishikawa Y. Sakai Y. Wada
S. Oba Y. Sakumura H. Wagatsuma
T. Ogata K. Samejima L. Wang
S-Y. Oh M. Sato K. Watanabe
N. Ohnishi N. Sato J. Wu
M. Okada R. Setiono Q. Xiao
H. Okamoto T. Shibata Y. Yamaguchi
T. Omori H. Shouno K. Yamauchi
T. Omori M. Small Z. Yi
R. Osu M. Sugiyama J. Yoshimoto
N. R. Pal I. Hong Suh B.M. Yu
P. S. Pang J. Suzuki B-T. Zhang
G-T. Park T. Takenouchi L. Zhang
J. Peters Y. Tanaka L. Zhang
S. Phillips I. Tetsunari
Sponsoring Institutions
Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA)
Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS)
21st Century COE Program,Kyushu Institute of Technology
Cosponsors
RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)
Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics (SOFT)
IEEE CIS Japan Chapter
Fuzzy Logic Systems Institute (FLSI)
Table of Contents – Part I
Computational Neuroscience
A Retinal Circuit Model Accounting for Functions of Amacrine Cells ... 1
Murat Saglam, Yuki Hayashida, and Nobuki Murayama
Global Bifurcation Analysis of a Pyramidal Cell Model of the Primary
Visual Cortex: Towards a Construction of Physiologically Plausible
Model .......................................................... 7
Tatsuya Ishiki, Satoshi Tanaka, Makoto Osanai, Shinji Doi,
Sadatoshi Kumagai, and Tetsuya Yagi
Representation of Medial Axis from Synchronous Firing of
Border-OwnershipSelective Cells .................................. 18
Yasuhiro Hatori and Ko Sakai
Neural Mechanism for Extracting Object Features Critical for Visual
CategorizationTask .............................................. 27
Mitsuya Soga and Yoshiki Kashimori
An Integrated Neuro-mechanical Model of C. elegans Forward
Locomotion ..................................................... 37
Jordan H. Boyle, John Bryden, and Netta Cohen
Applying the String Method to Extract Bursting Information from
Microelectrode Recordings in Subthalamic Nucleus and Substantia
Nigra........................................................... 48
Pei-Kuang Chao, Hsiao-Lung Chan, Tony Wu, Ming-An Lin, and
Shih-Tseng Lee
Population Coding of Song Element Sequence in the Songbird Brain
Nucleus HVC.................................................... 54
Jun Nishikawa, Masato Okada, and Kazuo Okanoya
Spontaneous Voltage Transients in Mammalian Retinal Ganglion Cells
Dissociated by Vibration.......................................... 64
Tamami Motomura, Yuki Hayashida, and Nobuki Murayama
Region-Based Encoding Method Using Multi-dimensional Gaussians
for Networks of Spiking Neurons ................................... 73
Lakshmi Narayana Panuku and C. Chandra Sekhar
Firing Pattern Estimation of Biological Neuron Models by Adaptive
Observer........................................................ 83
Kouichi Mitsunaga, Yusuke Totoki, and Takami Matsuo
