Today I updated the theme for the site and added a few other visual enhancements as well as allowing comments using your Facebook, Twitter and WordPress accounts.
I also disabled new user signups as I have been receiving hundreds of fake signups in the last few weeks.
I have recently started using FANN from Scala, and in order to do this I had to get fannj to work.
fannj is great and supports most of the features I need, and it works fine from Scala even works with FANN 2.2.
However, I had a few issues getting everything to work and for this I found this article very helpfull: Installing FANN on Java project and NativeLibrary.loadLibrary problems with 32bit/64bit
After having run my own phpbb forum for a number of years, I got fed up with dealing with spambots and have switched back to using sourceforge forums.
The new forum is available at SourceForge FANN Forum. The old forum have had the spam removed and is still available in a read-only mode at FANN phpbb forum.
FANN 2.2.0 has been released, after almost 5 years since the last release.
Since the last release there has been more than 230,000 FANN downloads, so hoping that this new release will be just as popular.
Version 2.2.0 is backwards compatible and adds the following new features:
For now there is only a source release (includes windows binaries), but have been playing around with CPACK, and a binary release should be coming soon.
Cool use of the FANN library
The creators write:
gesture recognition using a kinect an a neural network.
We using the openNI and the NITE librairies with a Kinect to track body parts (hands, elbow, head, …). Then we use FANN (Fast Artificial Neural Network) library for the recognition system.
For now, It is able to recognize only two moves, one means ‘hello’ (“bonjour” in franch), the other mean ‘sorry’ (“désole” in french).
We just need to record new moves to train the neural network to be able to recognize other “words”/moves.
For a long time there has only been a SOAP wrapper to use from .Net languages, so there has been a need for creating a real native wrapper. Some people have created small custom wrappers for smaller parts of the FANN library (see here), but finally a full wrapper is available for .Net languages fanndotnetwrapper.
A while back Seth made an OpenCL enhanced version of FANN. This is still a separate download, but there are plans to include this GPU enhanced version in the main repository.
The FANN website has not been updated for quite a while, partly because of laziness, but also because the update process has been somewhat complicated.
But now, the FANN website has gone through a complete makeover, and it is now based on the WordPress system, which allows for easy updating of the site, site comments, and a FANN blog with news stories about FANN.
Please let me know what you think about the new site, by commenting below.
November of 2010 was saw the second highest number of downloads ever for the FANN library, with a total of 4,679 downloads during the month.