Abstract
Abstract It is well known that the handwritten digits
recognition is a challenging problem. Different
classification algorithms have been applied to solve
it. Among them, the Self Organizing Maps (SOM) produced
promising results. In this paper, first we introduce a
Modified \SOM\ for the vector quantization problem
with improved initialization process and topology
preservation. Then we develop a Convolutional Recursive
Modified \SOM\ and apply it to the problem of
handwritten digits recognition. The computational
results obtained using the well known \MNIST\ dataset
demonstrate the superiority of the proposed algorithm
over the existing SOM-based algorithms.
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