Monitoring the Formation of Kernel-Based Topographic Maps with Application to Hierarchical Clustering of Music Signals

  • Authors:
  • Marc M. Van Hulle;Temujin Gautama

  • Affiliations:
  • K.U. Leuven, Laboratorium voor Neuro- en Psychofysiologie, Campus Gasthuisberg, Herestraat, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium;K.U. Leuven, Laboratorium voor Neuro- en Psychofysiologie, Campus Gasthuisberg, Herestraat, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

When using topographic maps for clustering purposes, which is now being considered in the data mining community, it is crucial that the maps are free of topological defects. Otherwise, a contiguous cluster could become split into separate clusters. We introduce a new algorithm for monitoring the degree of topology preservation of kernel-based maps during learning. The algorithm is applied to a real-world example concerned with the identification of 3 musical instruments and the notes played by them, in an unsupervised manner, by means of a hierarchical clustering analysis, starting from the music signal's spectrogram.