K-means Clustering using a Grid-based Sampling

K-means clustering has been widely used in many applications, such that pattern analysis or recognition, data analysis, image processing, market research and so on. It can identify dense and sparse regions among data attributes or object attributes. But k-means algorithm requires many hours to get k clusters that we want, because it is more primitive, explorative. In this paper we propose a new method of k-means clustering using the grid-based sample. It is more fast than any traditional clustering method and maintains its accuracy.