2006 年 13 巻 4 号 p. 129-136
Hyper-Column Model (HCM) is a self-organized, competitive and hierarchical multilayer neural network. It is derived from the Neocognitron by replacing each S cell and C cell with a two layer Hierarchical Self-Organizing Map (HSOM). HCM can recognize images with variant object size, position, orientation and spatial resolution. In this paper, we propose two new learning methods; “Combinatorial Learning, ” and “Associative Learning”. The former enables HCM to learn a pattern of winner neurons which are activated in each HSOM with excitatory lateral connections. HCM is expanded to a supervised learnable model by the latter learning algorithm.