Complex-valued Neural Networks
Akira Hirose · IEEJ Transactions on Electronics Information and Systems · 2011
This paper reviews the features and applications of complex-valued neural networks (CVNNs). First we list the present application fields, and describe the advantages of the CVNNs in two application examples, namely, an adaptive plastic-landmine visualization system and an optical frequency-domain-multiplexed learning logic circuit. Then we briefly discuss the features of complex number itself to find that the phase rotation is the most significant concept, which is very useful in processing the information related to wave phenomena such as lightwave and electromagnetic wave. The CVNNs will also be an indispensable framework of the future microelectronic information-processing hardware where the quantum electron wave plays the principal role.