A Clustering Method for Data in Cylindrical Coordinates

Kazuhisa Fujita

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2017, vol. 2017, 1-11

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We propose a new clustering method for data in cylindrical coordinates based on the -means. The goal of the -means family is to maximize an optimization function, which requires a similarity. Thus, we need a new similarity to obtain the new clustering method for data in cylindrical coordinates. In this study, we first derive a new similarity for the new clustering method by assuming a particular probabilistic model. A data point in cylindrical coordinates has radius, azimuth, and height. We assume that the azimuth is sampled from a von Mises distribution and the radius and the height are independently generated from isotropic Gaussian distributions. We derive the new similarity from the log likelihood of the assumed probability distribution. Our experiments demonstrate that the proposed method using the new similarity can appropriately partition synthetic data defined in cylindrical coordinates. Furthermore, we apply the proposed method to color image quantization and show that the methods successfully quantize a color image with respect to the hue element.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1155/2017/3696850

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