Improving the self-organizing feature map algorithm using an efficient initialization scheme

Tamkang Journal of Science and Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 35-48

  Su, Mu Chun ^a   Liu, Ta Kang ^b   Chang, Hsiao Te ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Kohonen Algorithm; Neural Networks; Self organizing Feature Map; Unsupervised Learning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; ERROR DETECTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

KOHONEN ALGORITHM; SELF ORGANIZING FEATURE MAPS (SOM); UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 2942628272     PISSN: 15606686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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