A novel initialization scheme for the fuzzy c-means algorithm for color clustering

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 227-237

  Kim, Dae Won ^a   Lee, Kwang H ^a   Lee, Doheon ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Centroid initialization; Color clustering; Color membership; Fuzzy c means; Fuzzy clustering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR; FUZZY SETS;

COLOR CLUSTERING PROBLEM; INITIALIZATION SCHEME;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0346847564     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2003.10.004     Document Type: Article

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