• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.969-977
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• 2021

We cluster the electricity consumption of households in A-apartment in Seoul, Korea using Hierarchical K-means clustering algorithm. The data is recorded from the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), and we focus on the electricity consumption during evening weekdays in summer. Compare to the conventional clustering algorithms, Hierarchical K-means clustering algorithm is recently applied to the electricity usage data, and it can identify usage patterns while reducing dimension. We apply Hierarchical K-means algorithm to the AMI data, and compare the results based on the various clustering validity indexes. The results show that the electricity usage patterns are well-identified, and it is expected to be utilized as a major basis for future applications in various fields.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.343-352
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• 2000

In this study. the author proposes a nonhierarchical clustering method. called the "Double K-Means Clustering", which performs clustering of multivariate observations with the following algorithm: Step I: Carry out the ordinary K-means clmitering and obtain k temporary clusters with sizes $n_1$,... , $n_k$, centroids $c_$1,..., $c_k$ and pooled covariance matrix S. $\bullet$ Step II-I: Allocate the observation x, to the cluster F if it satisfies ..... where N is the total number of observations, for -i = 1, . ,N. $\bullet$ Step II-2: Update cluster sizes $n_1$,... , $n_k$, centroids $c_$1,..., $c_k$ and pooled covariance matrix S. $\bullet$ Step II-3: Repeat Steps II-I and II-2 until the change becomes negligible. The double K-means clustering is nearly "optimal" under the mixture of k multivariate normal distributions with the common covariance matrix. Also, it is nearly affine invariant, with the data-analytic implication that variable standardizations are not that required. The method is numerically demonstrated on Fisher's iris data.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.169-179
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• 2021

This study shows that the two-stage k-means clustering method can improve prediction performance by predicting the stock price, To this end, this study introduces the two-stage k-means clustering algorithm and tests the prediction performance through comparison with various machine learning techniques. It selects the cluster close to the prediction target obtained from the k-means clustering, and reapplies the k-means clustering method to the cluster to search for a cluster closer to the actual value. As a result, the predicted value of this method is shown to be closer to the actual stock price than the predicted values of other machine learning techniques. Furthermore, it shows a relatively stable predicted value despite the use of a relatively small cluster. Accordingly, this method can simultaneously improve the accuracy and stability of prediction, and it can be considered as the new clustering method useful for small data. In the future, developing the two-stage k-means clustering is required for the large-scale data application.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.135-144
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• 2004

We propose a reproducibility (validity) assessment procedure of K-means cluster analysis by randomly partitioning the data set into three parts, of which two subsets are used for developing clustering rules and one subset for testing consistency of clustering rules. Also, as an alternative to Rand index and corrected Rand index, we propose an entropy-based consistency measure between two clustering rules, and apply it to determination of the number of clusters in K-means clustering.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.703-708
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• 2022

K-means clustering is a representative clustering technique. However, there is a limitation in not being able to integrate the performance evaluation scale and the method of determining the minimum number of clusters. In this paper, a method for numerically determining the minimum number of clusters is introduced. The explained variance is presented as an integrated measure. We propose that the k-means clustering method should be performed in the subspace of the PCA in order to simultaneously satisfy the minimum number of clusters and the threshold of the explained variance. It aims to present an explanation in principle why principal component analysis and k-means clustering are sequentially performed in pattern recognition and machine learning.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.339-345
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• 2011

The k-means has been one of the popular, simple and faster clustering algorithms, but the right value of k is unknown. The value of k (the number of clusters) is a very important element because the result of clustering is different depending on it. In this paper, we present a novel algorithm based on an external cluster relationship criterion which is an evaluation metric of clustering result to determine the number of clusters dynamically. Experimental results show that our algorithm is superior to other methods in terms of the accuracy of the number of clusters.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.83-88
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• 2013

This paper proposes a recommending system of the similar blogs gathered with similarities between blogs according to the similarity, dividing words, for each frequency, that individual blogs have. It improved the algorithm of k-means, using the model of the habits of white ants for better performance of clustering, and showed better performance of clustering as a result of evaluating and comparing with the existing algorithm of k-means as the improved algorithm. The recommending system of similar blog was designed and embodied, using the improved algorithm. TCA can reduce clustering time and the number of moving time for clustering compare with K-means algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.283-286
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• 2003

군집화 시 일반적으로 개별 클래스(class) 혹은 카테고리(category) 당 하나의 군집이 형성되는 결과가 선호된다. 하지만 데이터가 비정형적인 분포를 따르는 경우에는 하나의 군집으로 개별 클래스를 온전히 표현하는 것이 불가능하거나 오히려 부자연스러운 경우가 발생할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 예제의 클래스를 알고 있는 즉, 레이블(label)된 예제들을 그렇지 않은(unlabeled) 예제들과 함께 활용하여 군집화하는 제약된 K-means (constrained K-means) 알고리즘을 위하여 보다 자연스러운 형태의 군집이 형성될 수 있도록 초기 씨드(seed, 씨앗)를 생성하는 방안을 제안한다. 레이블된 예제들을 계층적으로 군집화하면 다양한 단계에서 제약된 K-means를 위한 씨드집합을 생성할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 각 단계의 씨드집합을 기반으로 형성된 군집결과간의 변화정도를 측정하여 가장 적절한 것으로 추정되는 씨드집합을 선정하였다. 제안한 방안을 문서 군집화 문제에 적용하여 실험한 결과 개별 클래스마다 하나의 군집을 가정하는 경우보다 더 나은 군집을 형성할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.37-43
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a robust lip detection algorithm using color clustering. At first, we adopt AdaBoost algorithm to extract facial region and convert facial region into Lab color space. Because a and b components in Lab color space are known as that they could well express lip color and its complementary color, we use a and b component as the features for color clustering. The nearest neighbour clustering algorithm is applied to separate the skin region from the facial region and K-Means color clustering is applied to extract lip-candidate region. Then geometric characteristics are used to extract final lip region. The proposed algorithm can detect lip region robustly which has been shown by experimental results.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.11
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• pp.281-288
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• 2014

A method for edge detection using K-means clustering is proposed in this paper. The method is performed through there steps. Histogram equalizing is applied to the image for the uniformed intensity distribution. Pixels are clustered by K-means clustering technique. Then Sobel mask is applied to detect edges. Experiments showed that this method detected edges better than conventional method.