Abstract
Support-based clustering using kernels suffers from serious computational limitations inherent in many kernel methods when applied to very large-scale problems despite its ability to identify clusters with complex shapes. In this paper, we propose a novel clustering algorithm called Voronoi cell-based clustering to expedite support-based clustering using kernels. In contrast to previous studies, including the basin cell-based method, the proposed method achieves computational efficiency in both the training phase to construct a support estimate using sampled data to reduce the evaluation of kernels and the labeling phase to assign a cluster label on each data point nearest its representative point. The performance superiority of the proposed method over the other basin cell-based methods in terms of computational time and storage efficiency is verified by various experiments using benchmark sets and in real applications to image segmentation.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 6906252 |
Pages (from-to) | 1146-1156 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Apr 2015 |
Keywords
- Clustering
- kernel methods
- support level function