• ETRI Journal
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.596-602
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• 2010

This paper proposes a computationally efficient learning-based super-resolution algorithm using k-means clustering. Conventional learning-based super-resolution requires a huge dictionary for reliable performance, which brings about a tremendous memory cost as well as a burdensome matching computation. In order to overcome this problem, the proposed algorithm significantly reduces the size of the trained dictionary by properly clustering similar patches at the learning phase. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm provides superior visual quality to the conventional algorithms, while needing much less computational complexity.

• Journal of Creative Information Culture
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.221-230
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• 2018

Collaborative filtering technique is a major method of recommender systems and has been successfully implemented and serviced in real commercial online systems. However, this technique has several inherent drawbacks, such as data sparsity, cold-start, and scalability problem. Clustering-based collaborative filtering has been studied in order to handle scalability problem. This study suggests a collaborative filtering system which utilizes genetic algorithms to improve shortcomings of K-means algorithm, one of the widely used clustering techniques. Moreover, different from the previous studies that have targeted for optimized clustering results, the proposed method targets the optimization of performance of the collaborative filtering system using the clustering results, which practically can enhance the system performance.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.32-37
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• 2016

This paper proposes two measurement methods for injured rate of fish surface using color image segmentation method based on K-means clustering algorithm and Otsu's threshold algorithm. To do this task, the following steps are done. Firstly, an RGB color image of the fish is obtained by the CCD color camera and then converted from RGB to HSI. Secondly, the S channel is extracted from HSI color space. Thirdly, by applying the K-means clustering algorithm to the HSI color space and applying the Otsu's threshold algorithm to the S channel of HSI color space, the binary images are obtained. Fourthly, morphological processes such as dilation and erosion, etc. are applied to the binary image. Fifthly, to count the number of pixels, the connected-component labeling is adopted and the defined injured rate is gotten by calculating the pixels on the labeled images. Finally, to compare the performances of the proposed two measurement methods based on the K-means clustering algorithm and the Otsu's threshold algorithm, the edge detection of the final binary image after morphological processing is done and matched with the gray image of the original RGB image obtained by CCD camera. The results show that the detected edge of injured part by the K-means clustering algorithm is more close to real injured edge than that by the Otsu' threshold algorithm.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.146-159
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• 2023

This paper proposes a hybrid algorithm combining K-means clustering and watershed algorithms for flower segmentation and counting. We use the K-means clustering algorithm to obtain the main colors in a complex background according to the cluster centers and then take a color space transformation to extract pixel values for the hue, saturation, and value of flower color. Next, we apply the threshold segmentation technique to segment flowers precisely and obtain the binary image of flowers. Based on this, we take the Euclidean distance transformation to obtain the distance map and apply it to find the local maxima of the connected components. Afterward, the proposed algorithm adaptively determines a minimum distance between each peak and apply it to label connected components using the watershed segmentation with eight-connectivity. On a dataset of 30 images, the test results reveal that the proposed method is more efficient and precise for the counting of overlapped flowers ignoring the degree of overlap, number of overlap, and relatively irregular shape.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2021.11a
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• pp.107-110
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• 2021

글로벌 퍼블릭 클라우드 산업 규모는 매년 폭발적으로 성장하고 있으며 최근 COVID-19 등 비대면 문화 확산에 따라 지속 확장되고 있다. 클라우드 사업자는 유한한 인프라 자원으로 다수의 사용자에게 양질의 IT 서비스 제공을 위해 잉여 자원 할당을 최소화하는 것이 중요하다. 그러나 일반적인 퍼블릭 클라우드 환경에서는 정적 자원 할당 기법을 채택하고 있기 때문에 사용자의 주관적인 판단에 따라 잉여 자원의 발생은 필연적이다. 본 논문에서는 머신 러닝 기법 중 K-Means Clustering 알고리즘을 적용하여 클라우드 동적 자원 관리 기법을 제안한다. K-Means Clustering 기반으로 클라우드에 탑재된 각 Instance 의 자원 사용률 데이터를 분석하고, 분석 결과를 토대로 각 Instance 가 속한 Cluster 에 대하여 자원 최적화 작업을 수행한다. 이를 통해 전체 데이터센터 관점에서 잉여 자원의 발생을 최소화하면서도 SLA 수준 및 서비스 연속성을 보장한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.150-156
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• 2008

Many papers have shown that the hierarchical clustering method takes good-performance, but is limited because of its quadratic time complexity. In contrast, with a large number of variables, K-means reduces a time complexity. Think of the factor of simplify, high-quality and high-efficiency, we combine the two approaches providing a new system named CONDOR system with hierarchical structure based on document clustering using K-means algorithm. Evaluated the performance on different hierarchy depth and initial uncertain centroid number based on variational relative document amount correspond to given queries. Comparing with regular method that the initial centroids have been established in advance, our method performance has been improved a lot.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.214-221
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• 2010

The search-results clustering problem is defined as the automatic and on-line grouping of similar documents in search results returned from a search engine. In this paper, we propose a new search-results clustering algorithm specialized for a paper search service. Our system consists of two algorithmic phases: Category Hierarchy Generation System (CHGS) and Paper Clustering System (PCS). In CHGS, we first build up the category hierarchy, called the Field Thesaurus, for each research field using an existing research category hierarchy (KOSEF's research category hierarchy) and the keyword expansion of the field thesaurus by a word clustering method using the K-means algorithm. Then, in PCS, the proposed algorithm determines the category of each paper using top-down and bottom-up methods. The proposed system can be used in the application areas for retrieval services in a specialized field such as a paper search service.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.61-69
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• 2016

Understanding load patterns and customer classification is a basic step in analyzing the behavior of electricity consumers. To achieve that, there have been many researches about clustering customers' daily load data. Nowadays, the deployment of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and big-data technologies make it easier to study customers' load data. In this paper, we study load clustering from the view point of yearly and daily load pattern. We compare four clustering methods; K-means clustering, hierarchical clustering (average & Ward's method) and DBSCAN (Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise). We also discuss the relationship between clustering results and Korean Standard Industrial Classification that is one of possible labels for customers' load data. We find that hierarchical clustering with Ward's method is suitable for clustering load data and KSIC can be well characterized by daily load pattern, but not quite well by yearly load pattern.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.305-312
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• 2006

K-means clustering algorithm 에서 주로 이루어지는 랜덤 초기화 (random initialization) 방법은 전역 최적화된 해(global minimum)를 찾아내기에 문제점을 지니고 있다. 즉, 여러 횟수의 알고리듬 반복(iteration)을 실행하더라도 전역 최적화된 해를 찾아내기가 매우 힘들며 주어진 자료의 크기(data size)가 큰 경우에 있어서 이는 거의 불가능하다. 본 논문은 이러한 문제점들을 극복하기 위한 방안으로, wavelet을 이용하여 최적의 초기 군집 중심점(initial clustering center)들을 선택하는 방법을 제시한다. 즉, 웨이블릿을 이용한 효과적인 초기화 (initialization)를 통해서 작은 알고리듬 반복 횟수만으로도 전역 최적화에 도달하는 초기화 방법을 기술한다. 이런 초기화 방법이 군집 알고리즘에 사용될 경우, 온라인상에서 실시간 이루어지는 군집 분석에 큰 도움이 된 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10b
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• pp.233-237
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• 2006

This study proposes an innovative measure for evaluating the performance of text clustering. In using K-means algorithm and Kohonen Networks for text clustering, the number clusters is fixed initially by configuring it as their parameter, while in using single pass algorithm for text clustering, the number of clusters is not predictable. Using labeled documents, the result of text clustering using K-means algorithm or Kohonen Network is able to be evaluated by setting the number of clusters as the number of the given target categories, mapping each cluster to a target category, and using the evaluation measures of text. But in using single pass algorithm, if the number of clusters is different from the number of target categories, such measures are useless for evaluating the result of text clustering. This study proposes an evaluation measure of text clustering based on intra-cluster similarity and inter-cluster similarity, what is called CI (Clustering Index) in this article.