Host: Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics (SOFT)
A new self-organizing map which includes winner afterglow layer for spatio-temporal pattern processing is proposed. In the proposed method, information of past winner is embedded in the additional competitive layer called winner afterglow layer, not in the usual competitive layer, thus it is expected that spatial topology is preciously preserved on the competitive layer. It facilitates understanding of map information. The effectiveness is verified by applying it to some spatio-temporal pattern classification problems.
