Title
Robust Clustering Based on Dominant Sets
Abstract
Clustering is an important unsupervised learning approach and widely used in pattern recognition, data mining and image processing, etc. Different from existing clustering algorithms based on partitioning within data, dominant sets clustering extracts clusters in a sequential fashion. Based on graph-theoretic concept of a cluster, dominant sets clustering can be accomplished with a game dynamics efficiently while being able to determine the number of clusters automatically. However, we have observed that the definition of dominant set over weights the importance of high intra-cluster similarity. Consequently, dominant sets clustering is found to be sensitive to similarity parameters and show the tendency to generate over-segmented clustering results. In order to solve these problems, in this paper we present a cluster extension algorithm by making use of the relationship of intra-cluster and inter-cluster similarity. In experiments on eight datasets, our algorithm performs evidently better than the original dominant sets algorithm, and comparably to other state-of-the-art clustering algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ICPR.2014.261
ICPR
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
pattern clustering,dominant sets,cluster extension algorithm,set theory,graph-theoretic concept,robust clustering,unsupervised learning approach,unsupervised learning
Conference
1051-4651
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jian Hou1183.08
Xu E243.89
Lei Chi329713.15
Qi Xia4324.30
Naiming Qi52410.34