This paper proposes a model of self-growing and self-organizing feature map designed to alleviate the difficulty of predetermining an appropriate size and shape of the feature map suitable for the input data in the applications of the Self-Organizing Map. The proposed model progressively builds a feature map by incremental growing of the network in a way that maintains two-dimensional regular grid structure and gradual adaptation of the reference vectors by coordinated competitive learning dynamics of the Batch Map algorithm. Experimental results ...