Growing neural gas (GNG): A soft competitive learning method for 2D hand modelling

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E89-D, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2124-2131

  García Rodríguez, José ^a   Angelopoulou, Anastassia ^b   Psarrou, Alexandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classification; Growing neural gas; Image segmentation; Registration

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

2D TRAINING IMAGES; GROWING NEURAL GAS (GNG); NEURAL GAS (NG) MAPS; REGISTRATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33747885940     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e89-d.7.2124     Document Type: Conference Paper

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