Talk:Cellular neural network

Whoever first wrote the bulk of this article probably didn't have English as their first language. Can an expert please rewrite this to be less ambiguous and easier to follow? Also why is the reference list longer than the entire article? (unsigned comment)

I also want to say that the whole article needs "citation needed" after just about every sentence.

From reading the description here, it seems that CNNs are not distinct from ANNs (as stated several times) but are rather just a special case of ANNs. (Nothing about being an ANN requires non-local connections, and as far as I can tell from the description here, the only difference is that CNNs are required to have a specific local graph structure.)

CNN is indeed a kind of ANN with local connections only. The article is not explicit in this regard, not clear why. Arkadi kagan (talk) 12:01, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

The acronym "CA" seems to be used quite confusingly as well. Sometimes it seems to refer to "continuous automaton", but sometimes it seems to mean "cellular automaton", especially when CNNs are being contrasted with CAs.

All in all, this page is somewhat confusing, and it's not clear why this topic deserves a separate article from neural networks. However, at the moment it's probably good that this is separate, since this article is actually less confusing than the articles neural network and artificial neural network, which have the added complication of being nearly totally redundant with one another. 120.16.58.115 (talk) 04:43, 15 October 2009 (UTC)