Emergent self-organizing feature map for recognizing road sign images

Neural Computing and Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 601-615

  Nguwi, Yok Yen ^a   Cho, Siu Yeung ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Data visualization; Image classification; Road sign recognition; Self organizing map

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952882209     PISSN: 09410643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00521-009-0315-6     Document Type: Article

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