The Continuous Interpolating Self-organizing Map

  • Authors:
  • J. Göppert;W. Rosentiel

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Tübingen, Sand 13, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany;University of Tübingen, Sand 13, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Neural Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

The self-organizing map (SOM) [5] provides a general data approximation method which is suitable for several application domains. The topology preservation is an important feature in data-analysis and may also be advantageous for the evaluation of the data in a function approximation or regression task. For this reason the interpolated self-organizing map (I-SOM) adds an output layer to the SOM architecture which computes a real valued output vector. This paper presents an extension of I-SOM towards a continuous interpolation. It is compared to RBF and to the parametrized self-organizing map.