Self-organizing hierarchical feature maps
Pasi Koikkalainen, Erkki Oja · 1990
The topological feature map (TFM) algorithm introduced by T. Kohenen (1982) implements two important properties: a vector quantization (VQ) and a topology-preserving mapping. A tree-structured TFM (TSTFM) is presented as a computationally inexpensive alternative to the TFM algorithm. The computational complexity of the TSTFM isO(logN) rather thanO(N) for the TFM. In addition, the TSTFM has some new properties that prove to be useful for VQ and in the context of visual perception: increased performance in VQ compared to the tree-structured VQ of A. Buzo et al. (1980) and hierarchical mapping of code vectors