期刊
PATTERN RECOGNITION
卷 60, 期 -, 页码 983-997出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2016.07.007
关键词
Density-ratio; Varying densities; Density-based clustering; Scaling
资金
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD) [FA2386-13-1-4043]
Density-based clustering algorithms are able to identify clusters of arbitrary shapes and sizes in a dataset which contains noise. It is well-known that most of these algorithms, which use a global density threshold, have difficulty identifying all clusters in a dataset having clusters of greatly varying densities. This paper identifies and analyses the condition under which density-based clustering algorithms fail in this scenario. It proposes a density-ratio based method to overcome this weakness, and reveals that it can be implemented in two approaches. One approach is to modify a density-based clustering algorithm to do density-ratio based clustering by using its density estimator to compute density-ratio. The other approach involves rescaling the given dataset only. An existing density-based clustering algorithm, which is applied to the rescaled dataset, can find all clusters with varying densities that would otherwise impossible had the same algorithm been applied to the unscaled dataset. We provide an empirical evaluation using DBSCAN, OPTICS and SNN to show the effectiveness of these two approaches. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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