Clustering nodes in a self-organizing map using an adaptive resonance theory network
US8270732B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 31, 2009 |
| Grant date | Sep 18, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 28, 2030 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06V20/52
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for discovering object type clusters using pixel-level micro-features extracted from image data. A self-organizing map and adaptive resonance theory (SOM-ART) network is used to classify objects depicted in the image data based on the pixel-level micro-features. Importantly, the discovery of the object type clusters is unsupervised, i.e., performed independent of any training data that defines particular objects, allowing a behavior-recognition system to forgo a training phase and for object classification to proceed without being constrained by specific object definitions. The SOM-ART network is adaptive and able to learn while discovering the object type clusters and classifying objects.
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