In this paper we test the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) on the problem of predicting chaotic time-series (speci cally Mackey-Glass series) with local linear models de ned separately for each of the prototype vectors of the SOM. We see that the method achieves good results. This together with the capabilities of the SOM make it a valuable tool in exploratory data mining.

We propose a two-stage hierarchical arti®cial neural network for the segmentation of color images based on the Kohonen self-organizing map (SOM). The ®rst stage of the network employs a ®xed-size two-dimensional feature map that captures the dominant colors of an image in an unsupervised mode. The second stage combines a variable-sized one-dimensional feature map and color merging to control th...

The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) is a useful and strong tool for data analysis, especially for large data sets or data sets of high dimensionality. SOM visualizations map the data model dimensions to visual dimensions like color and position, thus they help exploring the SOM. Visualization can also involve the data itself so that it helps accessing information that are not available in the trained...

This paper presents a novel architecture of SOM which organizes itself over time. The proposed method called MIGSOM (Multilevel Interior Growing Self-Organizing Maps) which is generated by a growth process. However, the network is a rectangular structure which adds nodes from the boundary as well as the interior of the network. The interior nodes will be added in a superior level of the map. Co...

Self-Organized Maps (SOMs) are a popular approach for clustering data. However, most SOM based approaches ignore prior knowledge about potential categories. Also, Self Organized Map (SOM) based approaches usually develop topographic maps with disjoint and uniform activation regions that correspond to a hard clustering of the patterns at their nodes. We present a novel Self-Organizing map, the K...

Clustering is a very useful and important technique for analyzing gene expression data. Self-organizing map (SOM) is one of the most useful clustering algorithms. SOM requires the number of clusters to be one of the initialization parameters prior to clustering. However, this information is unavailable in most cases, particularly in gene expression data. Thus, the validation results from SOM ar...

This paper implements and compares different techniques for face detection and recognition. One is find where the face is located in the images that is face detection and second is face recognition that is identifying the person. We study three techniques in this paper: Face detection using self organizing map (SOM), Face recognition by projection and nearest neighbor and Face recognition using...

Powerful methods for interactive exploration and search from collections of free-form textual documents are needed to manage the ever-increasing flood of digital information. In this article we present a method, WEBSOM, for automatic organization of full-text document collections using the self-organizing map (SOM) algorithm. The document collection is ordered onto a map in an unsupervised mann...

This chapter provides an overview on the self-organised map (SOM) in the context of manifold mapping. It first reviews the background of the SOM and issues on its cost function and topology measures. Then its variant, the visualisation induced SOM (ViSOM) proposed for preserving local metric on the map, is introduced and reviewed for data visualisation. The relationships among the SOM, ViSOM, m...

In this paper an extension to the learning rule of the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) namely the Free Projection SOM (FP-SOM) is presented in order to enhance the SOM projection. The general idea of the FPSOM is to mirror the movement of weight vectors during the training process allowing their images on the map grid to move more freely between the junctions. The result of the extended training algo...