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Texture is one of the most important properties of visual surface that helps in discriminating one object from another or an object from background. The self-organizing map (SOM) is an excellent tool in exploratory phase of data mining. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-20 Marghny H. Mohamed , Mohammed M. Abdelsamea

Determining the number of clusters in a dataset is a fundamental issue in data clustering. Many methods have been proposed to solve the problem of selecting the number of clusters, considering it to be a problem with regard to model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Ryosuke Motegi , Yoichi Seki

Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) are a classical method for unsupervised learning, vector quantization, and topographic mapping of high-dimensional data. However, existing SOM formulations often involve a trade-off between computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Seiki Ubukata , Akira Notsu , Katsuhiro Honda

Many data analysis methods cannot be applied to data that are not represented by a fixed number of real values, whereas most of real world observations are not readily available in such a format. Vector based data analysis methods have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-09-25 Aïcha El Golli , Fabrice Rossi , Brieuc Conan-Guez , Yves Lechevallier

Interactive Sonification is a well-known guidance method in navigation tasks. Researchers have repeatedly suggested the use of interactive sonification in neuronavigation and image-guided surgery. The hope is to reduce clinicians' cognitive…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Tim Ziemer

Sonification and audification create auditory displays of datasets. Audification translates data points into digital audio samples and the auditory display's duration is determined by the playback rate. Like audification, auditory graphs…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Paul Vickers , Robert Höldrich

This paper takes an information visualization perspective to visual representations in the general SOM paradigm. This involves viewing SOM-based visualizations through the eyes of Bertin's and Tufte's theories on data graphics. The regular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-26 Peter Sarlin , Samuel Rönnqvist

Sonification, or encoding information in meaningful audio signatures, has several advantages in augmenting or replacing traditional visualization methods for human-in-the-loop decision-making. Standard sonification methods reported in the…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Oindrila Chatterjee , Shantanu Chakrabartty

Parameter prediction is essential for many applications, facilitating insightful interpretation and decision-making. However, in many real life domains, such as power systems, medicine, and engineering, it can be very expensive to acquire…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Zimeng Lyu , Alexander Ororbia , Rui Li , Travis Desell

Self-organizing map(SOM) have been widely applied in clustering, this paper focused on centroids of clusters and what they reveal. When the input vectors consists of time, latitude and longitude, the map can be strongly linked to physical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Yu Ding

Objective: Three perceptually orthogonal auditory dimensions for multidimensional and multivariate data sonification are identified and experimentally validated. Background: Psychoacoustic investigations have shown that orthogonal…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Tim Ziemer , Holger Schultheis

The field of sonification, using of non-speech audio for data analysis, is already established in space sciences. Meetings like "The audible Universe" focus on sonification tools applied in astronomy to represent complex data like nebulae…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-05 Johanna Casado , Beatriz García

There has been an increasing interest in semi-supervised learning in the recent years because of the great number of datasets with a large number of unlabeled data but only a few labeled samples. Semi-supervised learning algorithms can work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Pedro H. M. Braga , Hansenclever F. Bassani

We study the statistical meaning of the minimization of distortion measure and the relation between the equilibrium points of the SOM algorithm and the minima of distortion measure. If we assume that the observations and the map lie in an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2008-02-22 Joseph Rynkiewicz

Background/Introduction: In this paper, the neural network class of Self-Organising Maps (SOMs) is investigated in terms of its theoretical and applied validity for cognitive modelling, particularly of neurodevelopmental disorders. Methods:…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-18 Spyridon Revithis , Nadine Marcus

The growing amount of data produced by simulations and observations of space physics processes encourages the use of methods rooted in Machine Learning for data analysis and physical discovery. We apply a clustering method based on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-27 Sophia Köhne , Elisabetta Boella , Maria Elena Innocenti

In numerous applicative contexts, data are too rich and too complex to be represented by numerical vectors. A general approach to extend machine learning and data mining techniques to such data is to really on a dissimilarity or on a kernel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-07-03 Fabrice Rossi

We introduce SENT-Map, a semantically enhanced topological map for representing indoor environments, designed to support autonomous navigation and manipulation by leveraging advancements in foundational models (FMs). Through representing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Raj Surya Rajendran Kathirvel , Zach A Chavis , Stephen J. Guy , Karthik Desingh

Vector-quantized representations enable powerful discrete generative models but lack semantic structure in token space, limiting interpretable human control. We introduce SOM-VQ, a tokenization method that combines vector quantization with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Alessandro Londei , Denise Lanzieri , Matteo Benati

Non-parametric dimensionality reduction techniques, such as t-SNE and UMAP, are proficient in providing visualizations for datasets of fixed sizes. However, they cannot incrementally map and insert new data points into an already provided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Damith Senanayake , Wei Wang , Shalin H. Naik , Saman Halgamuge