• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.196-201
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• 2007

The Fuzzy E-means (FCM) algorithm is a widely used clustering method that incorporates probabilitic memberships. Due to these memberships, it can be sensitive to noise data. In this paper, we propose a new fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm by incorporating the Parzen Window method to include density information of the data. Several experimental results show that our proposed density-based FCM algorithm outperforms conventional FCM especially for data with noise and it is not sensitive to initial cluster centers.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.11-18
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• 2010

Fuzzy c-means (FCM) is a simple but efficient clustering algorithm using the concept of a fuzzy set that has been proved to be useful in many areas. There are, however, several well known problems with FCM, such as sensitivity to initialization, sensitivity to outliers, and limitation to convex clusters. In this paper, global fuzzy c-means (G-FCM) and kernel fuzzy c-means (K-FCM) are combined to form a non-linear variant of G-FCM, called kernel global fuzzy c-means (KG-FCM). G-FCM is a variant of FCM that uses an incremental seed selection method and is effective in alleviating sensitivity to initialization. There are several approaches to reduce the influence of noise and accommodate non-convex clusters, and K-FCM is one of them. K-FCM is used in this paper because it can easily be extended with different kernels. By combining G-FCM and K-FCM, KG-FCM can resolve the shortcomings mentioned above. The usefulness of the proposed method is demonstrated by experiments using artificial and real world data sets.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.211-214
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• 2006

Fuzzy C-Means(FCM) 알고리즘은 probabilitic 멤버쉽을 사용하는 클러스터링 방법으로서 널리 쓰이고 있다. 하지만 이 방법은 노이즈에 대하여 민감한 성질을 가진다는 단점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 노이즈에 민감한 성질을 보완하기 위해서 데이터의 밀도추정을 이용하여 새로운 FCM 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안된 알고리즘은 FCM과 비슷한 성능의 클러스터링 수행이 가능하며, 노이즈가 포함된 데이터에서는 FCM보다 더 나은 성능을 보여준다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.5C
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• pp.700-705
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• 2004

Clustering of incomplete data using the Autoencoder and the Fuzzy c-Means(PCM) is proposed in this paper. The Proposed algorithm, called Optimal Completion Autoencoder Fuzzy c-Means(OCAEFCM), utilizes the Autoencoder Neural Network (AENN) and the Gradiant-based FCM (GBFCM) for optimal completion of missing data and clustering of the reconstructed data. The proposed OCAEFCM is applied to the IRIS data and a data set from a financial institution to evaluate the performance. When compared with the existing Optimal Completion Strategy FCM (OCSFCM), the OCAEFCM shows 18％-20％ improvement of performance over OCSFCM.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.57 no.3
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• pp.466-472
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• 2008

The paper concerns Fuzzy C-Means clustering based fuzzy neural networks (FCM-FNN) and the optimization of the network is carried out by means of hierarchal fair competition-based parallel genetic algorithm (HFCPGA). FCM-FNN is the extended architecture of Radial Basis Function Neural Network (RBFNN). FCM algorithm is used to determine centers and widths of RBFs. In the proposed network, the membership functions of the premise part of fuzzy rules do not assume any explicit functional forms such as Gaussian, ellipsoidal, triangular, etc., so its resulting fitness values directly rely on the computation of the relevant distance between data points by means of FCM. Also, as the consequent part of fuzzy rules extracted by the FCM-FNN model, the order of four types of polynomials can be considered such as constant, linear, quadratic and modified quadratic. Since the performance of FCM-FNN is affected by some parameters of FCM-FNN such as a specific subset of input variables, fuzzification coefficient of FCM, the number of rules and the order of polynomials of consequent part of fuzzy rule, we need the structural as well as parametric optimization of the network. In this study, the HFCPGA which is a kind of multipopulation-based parallel genetic algorithms(PGA) is exploited to carry out the structural optimization of FCM-FNN. Moreover the HFCPGA is taken into consideration to avoid a premature convergence related to the optimization problems. The proposed model is demonstrated with the use of two representative numerical examples.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.89-93
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• 2010

In this paper a new fuzzy clustering approach to the color clustering problem has been proposed. To deal with the limitations of the traditional FCM algorithm, we propose a spatial homogeneity-based FCM algorithm. Moreover, the cluster validity index is employed to automatically determine the number of clusters for a given image. We refer to this method as VS-FCM algorithm. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated through various clustering examples.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.57 no.11
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• pp.2108-2116
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• 2008

The paper concerns Fuzzy C-Means clustering based Radial Basis Function neural networks (FCM-RBFNN) and the optimization of the network is carried out by means of Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO). FCM-RBFNN is the extended architecture of Radial Basis Function Neural Network(RBFNN). In the proposed network, the membership functions of the premise part of fuzzy rules do not assume any explicit functional forms such as Gaussian, ellipsoidal, triangular, etc., so its resulting fitness values directly rely on the computation of the relevant distance between data points by means of FCM. Also, as the consequent part of fuzzy rules extracted by the FCM - RBFNN model, the order of four types of polynomials can be considered such as constant, linear, quadratic and modified quadratic. Weighted Least Square Estimator(WLSE) are used to estimates the coefficients of polynomial. Since the performance of FCM-RBFNN is affected by some parameters of FCM-RBFNN such as a specific subset of input variables, fuzzification coefficient of FCM, the number of rules and the order of polynomials of consequent part of fuzzy rule, we need the structural as well as parametric optimization of the network. In this study, the PSO is exploited to carry out the structural as well as parametric optimization of FCM-RBFNN. Moreover The proposed model is demonstrated with the use of numerical example and gas furnace data set.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.39-46
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• 2011

Clustering is one of the well-known unsupervised learning methods, in which a data set is grouped into some number of homogeneous clusters. There are numerous clustering algorithms available and they have been used in various applications. Fuzzy c-means (FCM), the most well-known partitional clustering algorithm, was established in 1970's and still in use. However, there are some unsolved problems in FCM and variants of FCM are still under development. In this paper, the problems in FCM are first explained and the available solutions are investigated, which is aimed to give researchers some possible ways of future research. Most of the FCM variants try to solve the problems using domain knowledge specific to a given problem. However, in this paper, we try to give general solutions without using any domain knowledge. Although there are more things left than discovered, this paper may be a good starting point for researchers newly entered into a clustering area.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.7C
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• pp.931-936
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• 2004

GBFCM(DM), Gradient-based Fuzzy c-means with Divergence Measure, for efficient clustering of GPDF(Gaussian Probability Density Function) in MPEG VBR video data modeling is proposed in this paper. The proposed GBFCM(DM) is based on GBFCM( Gradient-based Fuzzy c-means) with the Divergence for its distance measure. In this paper, sets of real-time MPEG VBR Video traffic data are considered. Each of 12 frames MPEG VBR Video data are first transformed to 12-dimensional data for modeling and the transformed 12-dimensional data are Pass through the proposed GBFCM(DM) for classification. The GBFCM(DM) is compared with conventional FCM and GBFCM algorithms. The results show that the GBFCM(DM) gives 5∼15% improvement in False Alarm Rate over conventional algorithms such as FCM and GBFCM.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.419-424
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• 2019

The FCM algorithm finds the optimal solution through iterative optimization technique. In particular, there is a difference in execution time depending on the initial center of clustering, the location of noise, the location and number of crowded densities. However, this method gradually updates the center point, and the center of the initial cluster is shifted to one side. In this paper, we propose a TI-FCM(Triangular Inequality-Fuzzy C-Means) clustering algorithm that determines the cluster center density by maximizing the distance between clusters using triangular inequality. The proposed method is an effective method to converge to real clusters compared to FCM even in large data sets. Experiments show that execution time is reduced compared to existing FCM.