\\Tornado.shore.mbari.org\projectlibary\900260.AVED\Project.Documents\Project.Data\Background papers\caltech-classifier Whew The thesis is final_report.pdf and ranzato_final_report.pdf Background info is in Automatic Visual Recognition of Biological Particles ppt presentation The work is published in Ranzato-prl06.pdf Tell me if you have trouble getting these out of the library. Duane