Exploring the Effect of Imaging Techniques Extension to PSO on Neural Networks

In this paper we go through some very recent imaging techniques that are inspired from space exploration. The advantages of these techniques are to help in searching space. To explore the effectiveness of these imaging techniques on search spaces, we consider the Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm and extend it using the imaging techniques to train multiple neural networks using several datasets for the purpose of classification. The techniques were used during the population initialization stage and during the main search. The performance of the techniques has been measured based on various experiments, these techniques have been evaluated against each other, and against the particle swarm optimization algorithm alone taking into account the classification accuracy and training runtime. The results show that the use of imaging techniques produces better results.