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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2017.21.5.967

Improvement on Density-Independent Clustering Method  

Kim, Seong-Hoon (Department of Software, Kyungpook National University)
Heo, Gyeongyong (Department of Electronic Engineering, Dong-eui University)
Abstract
Clustering is one of the most well-known unsupervised learning methods that clusters data into homogeneous groups. Clustering has been used in various applications and FCM is one of the representative methods. In Fuzzy C-Means(FCM), however, cluster centers tend leaning to high density areas because the Euclidean distance measure forces high density clusters to make more contribution to clustering result. Previously proposed was density-independent clustering method, where cluster centers were made not to be close each other and relived the center deviation problem. Density-independent clustering method has a limitation that it is difficult to specify the position of the cluster centers. In this paper, an enhanced density-independent clustering method with an additional term that makes cluster centers to be placed around dense region is proposed. The proposed method converges more to real centers compared to FCM and density-independent clustering, which can be verified with experimental results.
Keywords
Cluster density; Density-independent clustering; Euclidean distance; Fuzzy Clustering;
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