Unsupervised learning of arbitrarily shaped clusters using ensembles of Gaussian models

Pattern Analysis and Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 32-49

  Frigui, Hichem ^a  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

Gaussian mixture models; Image database categorization; Robust clustering; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844593269     PISSN: 14337541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10044-005-0240-y     Document Type: Article

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