An adaptive hierarchical structure called ‘‘Binary Tree TASOM’’ (BTASOM) is proposed, which resembles a binary natural tree having nodes composed of Time Adaptive Self-Organizing Map (TASOM) networks. The standard TASOM is almost as slow as the standard SOM and has a fixed number of neurons. The BTASOM is proposed to make the TASOM fast and adaptive in the number of its neurons. The BTASOM is t...

The feature map represented by the set of weight vectors of the basic SOM (Self-Organizing Map) provides a good approximation to the input space from which the sample vectors come. But the timedecreasing learning rate and neighborhood function of the basic SOM algorithm reduce its capability to adapt weights for a varied environment. In dealing with non-stationary input distributions and changi...

In this paper, we propose a neural network called Time Adaptive Principal Components Analysis (TAPCA) which is composed of a number of Time Adaptive SelfOrganizing Map (TASOM) networks. Each TASOM in TAPCA network estimates one eigenvector of tlie correlation matrix of input vectors entered so far, without having to calculate the correlation matrix. This estimation is done in an online fashion....

This paper investigates the use of time-adaptive self-organizing map (TASOM)-based active contour models (ACMs) for detecting the boundaries of the human eye sclera and tracking its movements in a sequence of images. The task begins with extracting the head boundary based on a skin-color model. Then the eye strip is located with an acceptable accuracy using a morphological method. Eye features ...

The feature map represented by the set of weight vectors of the basic SOM (Self-Organizing Map) provides a good approximation to the input space from which the sample vectors come. But the timedecreasing learning rate and neighborhood function of the basic SOM algorithm reduce its capability to adapt weights for a varied environment. In dealing with non-stationary input distributions and changi...

In this paper, a Growing TASOM (Time Adaptive Self-Organizing Map) network called “GTASOM” along with a peak finding process is proposed for automatic multilevel thresholding. The proposed GTASOM is tested for image segmentation. Experimental results demonstrate that the GTASOM is a reliable and accurate tool for image segmentation and its results outperform other thresholding methods.

Removal of noise and restoration images has been one the most interesting topics in field image processing past few years. Existing filter-based methods can remove noise; however, they cannot preserve quality information such as lines edges. In this article, various classifiers spatial filters are combined to achieve desirable restoration. Meanwhile, time adaptive self-organizing map (TASOM) cl...