Density-Sensitive Spectral Clustering

Licheng Jiao · Dianzi xuebao · 2007

Spectral clustering has become increasingly popular in recent years.Being a pairwise method,the success of spectral clustering depends heavily on the choice of similarity measure.Through analyzing the property of data clusters,a novel data-dependent similarity measure is proposed,namely density-sensitive similarity measure,which has the ability of describing the characters of data clustering compared with the traditional Euclidian metric based similarity measure.Based on the novel similarity measure,we have a density-sensitive spectral clustering algorithm.Compared with the original spectral clustering,it has the advantages of effectively dealing with the multi-scale problems and relatively not sensitive to parameter.It obtains promising results not only on artificial datasets but also on USPS handwritten digit dataset.

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