Practical Neural Network Recipies in C++

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Chapter 2

Industry, academia, and the military all need classification techniques.

A potato chip manufacturer needs to decide if the chips rolling off the

line are perfect, overcooked, or undercooked. A tank gunner needs to

know if a hot spot detected by an infrared sensor is a friend or foe. Of

all the possible uses for neural networks, classification is probably the

most common. Many details of classification will be covered through-

out this book. This chapter focuses on the general issues common to

all network models.

When we refer to a "classification network", we are not

necessarily referring to a particular network model that is designe ...