Abstract
Efficiently and effectively detecting shell-like structures of particular shapes is an important task in computer vision and image processing. This paper presents a generalized possibilistic c-means algorithm (PCM) for shell clustering based on the diversity index of degree-λ proposed by Patil and Taillie [Diversity as a concept and its measurement. J Amer Statist Assoc. 1982;77:548–561]. Experiments on various data sets in Wang [Possibilistic shell clustering of template-based shapes. IEEE Trans Fuzzy Syst. 2009;17:777–793] show that the the proposed generalized PCM performs better than Wang's [Possibilistic shell clustering of template-based shapes. IEEE Trans Fuzzy Syst. 2009;17:777–793] possibilistic shell clustering method according two two criteria: (i) the ‘grade of detection’ gd for each target cluster; (ii) the amount of computation, denoted as kc, required to attain a given gd.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 423-436 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation |
Volume | 87 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 11 Feb 2017 |
Keywords
- Diversity index
- generic-template-based shape detection
- possibilistic shell clustering
- power-law relation