The unsupervised niche clustering algorithm: Extension to multivariate clusters and application to color image segmentation

Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS

Volumn 3, Issue , 2001, Pages 1826-1831

  Nasraoui, Olfa ^a   Krishnapuram, Raghu ^b  

^a The University of Memphis ^*  (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHM; GENETIC OPTIMIZATION; K-MEANS; MULTIMODAL FUNCTION OPTIMIZATION; MULTIVARIATE DISTRIBUTIONS; POSSIBILISTIC C-MEANS; UNSUPERVISED NICHE CLUSTERING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035792857     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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