Automated audio segmentation and classification play important roles in multimedia content analysis. In this paper, we propose an enhanced approach, called the correlation intensive fuzzyc-means (cIFcM) algorithm, to...
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Automated audio segmentation and classification play important roles in multimedia content analysis. In this paper, we propose an enhanced approach, called the correlation intensive fuzzyc-means (cIFcM) algorithm, to audio segmentation and classification that is based on audio content analysis. While conventional methods work by considering the attributes of only the current frame or segment, the proposed cIFcM algorithm efficiently incorporates the influence of neighboring frames or segments in the audio stream. With this method, audio-cuts can be detected efficiently even when the signal contains audio effects such as fade-in, fade-out, and cross-fade. A number of audio features are analyzed in this paper to explore the differences between various types of audio data. The proposed cIFcM algorithm works by detecting the boundaries between different kinds of sounds and classifying them into clusters such as silence, speech, music, speech with music, and speech with noise. Our experimental results indicate that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art FcM approach in terms of audio segmentation and classification.
The `fuzzyclustering' problem is investigated. Interesting properties of the points generated in the course of applying the fuzzy c-means algorithm are revealed using the concept of reduced objective function. We...
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The `fuzzyclustering' problem is investigated. Interesting properties of the points generated in the course of applying the fuzzy c-means algorithm are revealed using the concept of reduced objective function. We investigate seven quantities that could be used for stopping the algorithm and prove relationships among them. Finally, we empirically show that these quantities converge linearly.
One of the most significant discussions in the field of machine learning today is on the clustering ensemble. The clustering ensemble combines multiple partitions generated by different clustering algorithms into a si...
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One of the most significant discussions in the field of machine learning today is on the clustering ensemble. The clustering ensemble combines multiple partitions generated by different clustering algorithms into a single clustering solution. Geneticalgorithms are known for their high ability to solve optimization problems, especially the problem of the clustering ensemble. To date, despite the major contributions to find consensus cluster partitions with application of geneticalgorithms, there has been little discussion on population initialization through generative mechanisms in genetic-based clustering ensemble algorithms as well as the production of cluster partitions with favorable fitness values in first phase clustering ensembles. In this paper, a threshold fuzzy c-means algorithm, named TFcM, is proposed to solve the problem of diversity of clustering, one of the most common problems in clustering ensembles. Moreover, TFcM is able to increase the fitness of cluster partitions, such that it improves performance of genetic-based clustering ensemble algorithms. The fitness average of cluster partitions generated by TFcM are evaluated by three different objective functions and compared against other clustering algorithms. In this paper, a simple genetic-based clustering ensemble algorithm, named SGcE, is proposed, in which cluster partitions generated by the TFcM and other clustering algorithms are used as the initial population used by the SGcE. The performance of the SGcE is evaluated and compared based on the different initial populations used. The experimental results based on eleven real world datasets demonstrate that TFcM improves the fitness of cluster partitions and that the performance of the SGcE is enhanced using initial populations generated by the TFcM.
Image segmentation in the medical imagery such as MRI, is an essential step to the sensitive analysis of human tissues lesions with the objective to improve the partition of different parts of the image according to t...
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Image segmentation in the medical imagery such as MRI, is an essential step to the sensitive analysis of human tissues lesions with the objective to improve the partition of different parts of the image according to their specificcharacteristics. fuzzyc-means (FcM) is one of the widely used algorithms in literature regarding image segmentation. Indeed, it offers performances to the precision level in many medical fields of applications. However, the main limitation of FcM algorithm is time consuming during the image segmentation by clustering. In order to improve and to reduce the time delay of image data processing, we implemented three methods inspired from the FcM on GPU GT 740 m by using the cUDA environment. This latter is well adapted to the new architectures of processing, and its sequential migration towards the parallel approach through the SIMD architecture as GPU cards solves this time constraint. Furthermore, we have improved, via the two current developed implementations methods, the speed up of the processing acquisition in comparison with the reference methods. The efficiency evaluation such as strengths and weaknesses of each implemented method will be evaluated on medical images segmentation according to the size of the modelled brain tumours.
cloud and cloud shadow detection is an important preprocess before using satellite images for different applications. It can be considered as a classification process, in which the objective pixels are partitioned int...
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cloud and cloud shadow detection is an important preprocess before using satellite images for different applications. It can be considered as a classification process, in which the objective pixels are partitioned into cloud/cloud shadow or non-cloud/non-cloud shadow classes. However, some cloud pixels, especially the thin cloud pixels, can be considered as a mixture of reflectances of clouds and land objects. In fuzzyclustering, the data points can belong to two or more clusters;hence, fuzzyclustering may better characterize the status of one given pixel belonging to clouds or non-clouds. The fuzzyc-means method (FcM), one typical fuzzyclustering method, was utilized in this study for cloud and cloud shadow detection. In addition, the "flood-fill" morphological transformation may misclassify some clear-sky areas surrounded by clouds as cloud shadows as a whole, so a modified cloud shadow index calculation was proposed. Moreover, a cloud and cloud shadow spatial matching strategy based on the projection direction and spatial coexistence was used to exclude some pseudo cloud shadows. Fewer predefined parameters and spectral bands are needed is one characteristic of the proposed method. In this study, 41 scenes including 27 Landsat ETM+ images in eight latitude zones and 14 Landsat OLI images comprising seven land cover types, including barren, forest, grass, shrubland, urban, water, and wetlands areas, with percentages of cloud cover from 4.99% to 97.63%, were utilized to confirm the validity of the FcM. The detected results demonstrate that the thick and thin clouds along with their associated cloud shadows can be precisely extracted by using the FcM. compared with the function of mask (Fmask) method, the FcM has relatively lower producer agreement rates, but it misclassifies as clouds fewer clear-sky pixels;compared with the support vector machine (SVM) method, the FcM can achieve better cloud detection accuracy. The results demonstrate that the FcM can attain
Remotely sensed imagery classification have a large amount of uncertainty related to the intraclass heterogeneity and the interclass ambiguity of objects. fuzzy set theory can address the uncertainty effectively, whil...
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Remotely sensed imagery classification have a large amount of uncertainty related to the intraclass heterogeneity and the interclass ambiguity of objects. fuzzy set theory can address the uncertainty effectively, while interval-valued model can improve the separability of samples. Therefore, we propose a novel interval-valued fuzzy c-means algorithm, which integrates the intervalvalued model and preferential adaptive method. It preferentially adjusts the interval width according to MSE (mean-square-error) and boundary factor for determining the optimal set of features for the data. In this paper, it is proved that the method can make the intraclass MSE and boundary factor always proportional to the separability of objects, so that it can dynamically adjust the interval-valued separability by controlling the interval width. Experimental data consisting of SPOT5 (10-m spatial resolution) satellite data for three case study areas in china are used to test this algorithm. compared with other state-of-the-art fuzzyclassification methods, our algorithm demonstrates the markedly improved overall accuracy and Kappa coefficients.
Active contour model (AcM) is an effective method for image segmentation that has been widely used in various research fields. For images with severe intensity inhomogeneity, most existing AcMs show a poor segmentatio...
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Active contour model (AcM) is an effective method for image segmentation that has been widely used in various research fields. For images with severe intensity inhomogeneity, most existing AcMs show a poor segmentation performance. Moreover, robustness of these models to initial contour and noise is unsatisfactory. To seek better approaches to these issues, this paper proposes an AcM driven by pre-fitting bias correction and optimized fuzzyc-means (FcM) algorithm, which is robust and achieves a fast segmentation. Firstly, an optimized FcM algorithm is presented, by which bias field is pre-estimated. Secondly, a criterion function for local intensity is defined, then integrated with respect to the center for a global criterion. Thirdly, the above theory is introduced into AcM according to the property of level set function. Fourthly, a novel regularization method is proposed for variational level set. Experiments on real and synthetic images prove that the proposed model can effectively segment images with severe intensity inhomogeneity. compared with the bias correction model, there is no more time-consuming convolutions in iterations so that computational amount of our model is enormously reduced. Furthermore, the model has better robustness to both noise and initialization, segmentation efficiency and accuracy than most region-based models. (c) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
In this paper, the problem of achieving "semi-fuzzy" or "soft" clustering of multidimensional data is discussed. A technique based on thresholding the results of the fuzzy c-means algorithm is intr...
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In this paper, the problem of achieving "semi-fuzzy" or "soft" clustering of multidimensional data is discussed. A technique based on thresholding the results of the fuzzy c-means algorithm is introduced. The proposed approach is analysed and contrasted with the soft clustering method (see S. Z. Selim and M. A. Ismail, Pattern Recognition 17, 559-568) showing the merits of the new method. Separation of clusters in the semi-fuzzyclustering context is introduced and the use of the proposed technique to measure the degree of separation is explained.
Product conceptualization is regarded as a key activity in new product development (NPD). In this stage, product concept generation and selection plays a crucial role. This paper presents a product concept generation ...
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Product conceptualization is regarded as a key activity in new product development (NPD). In this stage, product concept generation and selection plays a crucial role. This paper presents a product concept generation and selection (PcGS) approach, which was proposed to assist product designers in generating and selecting design alternatives during the product conceptualization stage. In the PcGS, general sorting was adapted for initial requirements acquisition and platform definition;while a fuzzyc-means (FcM) algorithm was integrated with a design alternatives generation strategy for clustering design options and selecting preferred product concepts. The PcGS deliberates and embeds a psychology-originated method, i.e., sorting technique, to widen domain coverage and improve the effectiveness in initial platform formation. Furthermore, it successfully improves the FcM algorithm in such a way that more accurate clustering results can be obtained. A case study on a wood golf club design was used for illustrating the proposed approach. The results were promising and revealed the potential of the PcGS method. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
In this paper, we present an efficient implementation of the fuzzyc-meansclustering algorithm. The original algorithm alternates between estimating centers of the clusters and the fuzzy membership of the data points...
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In this paper, we present an efficient implementation of the fuzzyc-meansclustering algorithm. The original algorithm alternates between estimating centers of the clusters and the fuzzy membership of the data points. The size of the membership matrix is on the order of the original data set, a prohibitive size if this technique is to be applied to very large data sets with many clusters. Our implementation eliminates the storage of this data structure by combining the two updates into a single update of the cluster centers. This change significantly affects the asymptotic runtime as the new algorithm is linear with respect to the number of clusters, while the original is quadratic. Elimination of the membership matrix also reduces the overhead associated with repeatedly accessing a large data structure. Empirical evidence is presented to quantify the savings achieved by this new method.
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