A novel spatial clustering algorithm based on Delaunay triangulation
Xiankun Yang, Weihong Cui · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2008
Exploratory data analysis is increasingly more necessary as larger spatial data is managed in electro-magnetic media. Spatial clustering is one of the very important spatial data mining techniques. So far, a lot of spatial clustering algorithms have been proposed. In this paper we propose a robust spatial clustering algorithm named SCABDT (Spatial Clustering Algorithm Based on Delaunay Triangulation). SCABDT demonstrates important advantages over the previous works. First, it discovers even arbitrary shape of cluster distribution. Second, in order to execute SCABDT, we do not need to know any priori nature of distribution. Third, like DBSCAN, Experiments show that SCABDT does not require so much CPU processing time. Finally it handles efficiently outliers.