FEEDBACK SELF-ORGANIZING MAP AND ITS APPLICATION TO SPATIO-TEMPORAL PATTERN CLASSIFICATION

Abstract

In this paper, a feedback self-organizing map (FSOM), which is an extension of the self-organizing map (SOM) by employing feedback loops, is proposed. The SOM consists of an input layer and a competitive layer, and the input vectors applied to the input layer are mapped to the competitive layer keeping their spatial features. In order to embed the temporal information to the SOM, feedback loops from the competitive layer to the input layer are employed. The winner unit in the competitive layer is not assigned by only current input vector but also past winner units, thus the temporal information can be embedded. The effectiveness and validity of the proposed FSOM are verified by applying it to a spatio-temporal pattern classification.