Automatically finding clusters in normalized cuts

作者:Tepper Mariano*; Muse Pablo; Almansa Andres; Mejail Marta
来源:Pattern Recognition, 2011, 44(7): 1372-1386.
DOI:10.1016/j.patcog.2011.01.003

摘要

Normalized Cuts is a state-of-the-art spectral method for clustering. By applying spectral techniques, the data becomes easier to cluster and then k-means is classically used. Unfortunately the number of clusters must be manually set and it is very sensitive to initialization. Moreover, k-means tends to split large clusters, to merge small clusters, and to favor convex-shaped clusters. In this work we present a new clustering method which is parameterless, independent from the original data dimensionality and from the shape of the clusters. It only takes into account inter-point distances and it has no random steps. The combination of the proposed method with normalized cuts proved successful in our experiments.

  • 出版日期2011-7