• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.121-128
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• 2010

K-means clustering is an iterative algorithm in which items are moved among sets of clusters until the desired set is reached. K-means clustering has been widely used in many applications, such as market research, pattern analysis or recognition, image processing, etc. It can identify dense and sparse regions among data attributes or object attributes. But k-means algorithm requires many hours to get k clusters that we want, because it is more primitive, explorative. In this paper we propose a new method of k-means clustering using a center of gravity for grid-based sample. It is more fast than any traditional clustering method and maintains its accuracy.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.5
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• pp.30-38
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• 2011

This paper proposes a new enhancing document clustering method using a synonym of cluster topic and the similarity. The proposed method can well represent the inherent structure of document cluster set by means of selecting terms of cluster topic based on the semantic features by NMF. It can solve the problem of "bags of words" by using of expanding the terms of cluster topics which uses the synonyms of WordNet. Also, it can improve the quality of document clustering which uses the cosine similarity between the expanded cluster topic terms and document set to well cluster document with respect to the appropriation cluster. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves better performance than other document clustering methods.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.35 no.9
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• pp.572-587
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• 2008

The Self-organizing Feature Map(SOFM) that is one of unsupervised neural networks is a very powerful tool for data clustering and visualization in high-dimensional data sets. Although the SOFM has been applied in many engineering problems, it needs to cluster similar weights into one class on the trained SOFM as a post-processing, which is manually performed in many cases. The traditional clustering algorithms, such as t-means, on the trained SOFM however do not yield satisfactory results, especially when clusters have arbitrary shapes. This paper proposes automatic clustering on trained SOFM, which can deal with arbitrary cluster shapes and be globally optimized by graph cuts. When using the graph cuts, the graph must have two additional vertices, called terminals, and weights between the terminals and vertices of the graph are generally set based on data manually obtained by users. The Proposed method automatically sets the weights based on mode-seeking on a distance matrix. Experimental results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method in texture segmentation. In the experimental results, the proposed method improved precision rates compared with previous traditional clustering algorithm, as the method can deal with arbitrary cluster shapes based on the graph-theoretic clustering.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.16B no.3
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• pp.195-202
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose the regions segmentation method of the white matter and the gray matter for brain MR image by using the ant colony optimization algorithm. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a new meta heuristics algorithm to solve hard combinatorial optimization problem. This algorithm finds the expected pixel for image as the real ant finds the food from nest to food source. Then ants deposit pheromone on the pixels, and the pheromone will affect the motion of next ants. At each iteration step, ants will change their positions in the image according to the transition rule. Finally, we can obtain the segmentation results through analyzing the pheromone distribution in the image. We compared the proposed method with other threshold methods, viz. the Otsu' method, the genetic algorithm, the fuzzy method, and the original ant colony optimization algorithm. From comparison results, the proposed method is more exact than other threshold methods for the segmentation of specific region structures in MR brain image.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.44-57
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• 1995

In this paper GFI (Generalized Fuzzy Isodata) and FI (Fuzzy Isodata) algorithms are studied and applied to the tire tread pattern classification problem. GFI algorithm which repeatedly grouping the partitioned cluster depending on the fuzzy partition matrix is general form of GI algorithm. In the constructing the binary tree using GFI algorithm cluster validity, namely, whether partitioned cluster is feasible or not is checked and construction of the binary tree is obtained by FDH clustering algorithm. These algorithms show the good performance in selecting the prototypes of each patterns and classifying patterns. Directions of edge in the preprocessed image of tire tread pattern are selected as features of pattern. These features are thought to have useful information which well represents the characteristics of patterns.

• 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.41-45
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• 2005

분광각(Spectral Angle)을 이용한 분류는 같은 종류의 지표 대상물의 분광 특성이 대기 및 지형적인 영향으로 인해 원점을 기준으로 선형적인 분포 모양을 가진다는 가정에 기초한 새로운 접근의 분류 방식이다. 최근 분광각을 이용한 무감독 분류에 대한 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있으나, 원격탐사 데이터의 특성을 반영한 효과적인 무감독 분류에 대한 연구는 미진한 상태이다. 본 연구는 하이퍼스펙트럴 영상 분류에 있어서 기존 무감독 분광각 분류(USAC, Unsupervised Spectral Angle Classification) 연구에서 해결하지 못한 문제점들을 보완한 반복최적화 무감독 분광각 분류(ISOUSAC, Iterative Self-Organizing USAC) 기법을 제안하고 있다. 이를 위해, 무감독 분광각 분류에 적합한 각 분할(Angle Range Division) 기법을 적용하여 군집 초기 중심을 설정하였으며, 병합(Merge)과 분할(Split)를 통한 유동적인 군집 분석을 수행하였다. 결과를 통해, 제안된 알고리즘이 기존의 기법보다 수행 시간뿐 아니라 시각적인 면에서도 우수한 결과를 도출함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.1891-1894
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 분할 영상 좌보계 (split image coordinate: SIC)를 제안하여 3차원 영상의 주요 특징 중의 하나인 유, 무한 소실점을 그 위치의 무한성이나 카메라의 보정과 관계없이 정확하게 자동 추출하였다. 제안한 방법에서는 가우시안 구 (Gaussian sphere) 기반의 기존 방법들과는 달리 영상 공간을 누적 공간으로 활용함으로써 카메라 보정이나 영상의 사전정보가 없어도 원 영상의 정보 손실 없이 소실점을 추출할 수 있고, 영상을 무한대까지 확장한 후 분할하여 재정의 함으로써 유, 무한 소실점을 모두 추출할 수 있도록 하였다. 정확한 소실점의 검출을 위하여 직선 검출 과정에서는 방향성 마스크 (mask)를 사용하였으며, 직선들의 군집화 (clustering) 과정에서는 기울기 히스토그램 방법과 수평/수직 군집화 방법을 적응적으로 적용하였다. 제안한 방법을 합성 영상 및 건축물 (man-made environment) 영상에 적용시켜 유, 무한 소실점들을 효과적이고 정확하게 찾을 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.325-328
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• 2000

텍스쳐 분석은 장면 분할, 물체 인식, 모양과 깊이 인식 등의 많은 영상 처리 분야에서 중요한 기술 중의 하나이다. 그러나 실영상에 포함된 다양한 텍스쳐 성분에 대해서 보편적으로 적용 가능한 효율적인 방법들에 대한 연구는 미흡한 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 텍스쳐 인식을 위해서 비교사 학습 방법에 기반 한 효율적인 텍스쳐 분석 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 텍스쳐 영상이 지닌 방향특징 정보로서 각(angle)과 강도(power)를 추출하여 자기 조직화 신경회로망에 의해서 블록기반으로 군집화(clustering)된다. 비교사적 군집 결과는 통합(merging)과 불림(dilation) 과정을 통해서 영상에 내재된 텍스쳐 성분의 분할을 수행한다. 제안된 시스템의 성능 평가를 위해서는 다양한 형태의 다중 텍스쳐 영상을 생성하여 적용한 후 그 유효성을 보인다.

• 한국해양학회지
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.1-12
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• 1988

To clarify the community structure of phytoplankton in the Kyeonggi Bay, the community analysis were performed to investigate the relationship between the environmental factors and the phytoplankton communities. Low diversity with occurrence of few dominant species throughout the year, except summer, implies that ecological environment of this study area is very unstable due to incessant physical perturbation and large fluctuation of other environmental factors. According to the results of the cluster analysis this study area could be divided into river discharge, polluted and unpolluted area. Principal component analysis of overall phytoplankton community in this area clearly showed four seasonal succession patterns grouped into the spring type, the summer type, the late summer type, the late autumn-winter type. Summer communities composed of common phytoplankton are highly correlated with temperature and transparency. Winter communities composed of most tychopelagic plankton are positively correlated with suspended substances and nutrient, while negatively correlated with transparency.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.255-264
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• 2008

This paper proposes a novel method using K-means and Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) for topic -based multi-document summarization. NMF decomposes weighted term by sentence matrix into two sparse non-negative matrices: semantic feature matrix and semantic variable matrix. Obtained semantic features are comprehensible intuitively. Weighted similarity between topic and semantic features can prevent meaningless sentences that are similar to a topic from being selected. K-means clustering removes noises from sentences so that biased semantics of documents are not reflected to summaries. Besides, coherence of document summaries can be enhanced by arranging selected sentences in the order of their ranks. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves better performance than other methods.