1 INTRODUCTION

2 INFRA-RED OBSERVATIONAL SAMPLES AND CATALOGS
2.1 The IRAS All Sky Survey
2.2 The AKARI / FIS All Sky Survey
2.3 The Herschel / SPIRE Stripe 82 Survey
2.4 Derivation of LIR
2.5 Calibration consistency
2.6 Survey comparisons

3 THE ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK AND DETERMINATION OF INFRA-RED LUMINOSITIES
3.1 Training parameters
3.2 Training algorithms and error estimation

4 NETWORK VALIDATION
4.1 Self validation
4.2 Validation with independent datasets

5 COMPARISON WITH SDSS SFRS

6 SUMMARY