Wednesday, December 19, 2012

New VisuMap release with support for k-NN.

We have just releaseed VisuMap version 3.5.888. Apart from the new special release number, this version offers  the k-NN (k nearest neighbors) classification service. k-NN is kind of a modelless supervised machine learning algorithm, it uses the training data directly as the "model", whereas other classification methods, like SOM (self-organizing net), uses a network trained with the training data as model.

The following short video shows a simple scenario where k-NN is used to match the sphere surface with that of torus: