FANN

FANN 2.2.0 Released

Steffen Nissen — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:31:43 +0000

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:

Added Sarprop training
Added fann_create_train for creating an empty training data struct
Added fann_copy for copying an ANN
Added cascade_min_out_epochs and cascade_min_cand_epochs to improve cascade training
Added extra checks when training, to ensure that data and network input and output sizes matches
Added Visual Studio 2010 solution
Added support for 64bit architecture
Cleanup in sources
Moved source from CVS to GIT

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.

Kinect + Neural Network = Gesture Recognition

Steffen Nissen — Fri, 13 May 2011 00:48:44 +0000

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.

Native C# .Net wrapper for FANN released

Steffen Nissen — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 04:30:53 +0000

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.

OpenCL enhanced version of FANN

Steffen Nissen — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 01:00:14 +0000

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.

New FANN website

Steffen Nissen — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 05:22:04 +0000

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.

FANN more popular than ever

Steffen Nissen — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 07:18:31 +0000

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.

4,679