Using Smoothed Data Histograms for Cluster Visualization in Self-Organizing Maps

  • Authors:
  • Elias Pampalk;Andreas Rauber;Dieter Merkl

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICANN '02 Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Several methods to visualize clusters in high-dimensional data sets using the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) have been proposed. However, most of these methods only focus on the information extracted from the model vectors of the SOM. This paper introduces a novel method to visualize the clusters of a SOM based on smoothed data histograms. The method is illustrated using a simple 2-dimensional data set and similarities to other SOM based visualizations and to the posterior probability distribution of the Generative Topographic Mapping are discussed. Furthermore, the method is evaluated on a real world data set consisting of pieces of music.