Maximin initialization for cluster analysis

  • Authors:
  • Richard J. Hathaway;James C. Bezdek;Jacalyn M. Huband

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematical Sciences, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA;Computer Science Department, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL;Computer Science Department, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL

  • Venue:
  • CIARP'06 Proceedings of the 11th Iberoamerican conference on Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Most iterative clustering algorithms require a good initialization to achieve accurate results. A new initialization procedure for all such algorithms is given that is exact when the data contain compact, separated clusters. Our examples use c-means clustering.