• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.432-436
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• 2010

Finding communities from network data including social networks can be done by clustering the nodes of the network as densely interconnected groups, where keeping interconnection between groups sparse. To exploit a clustering algorithm for community detection task, we need a well-defined similarity measure between network nodes. In this paper, we propose a new similarity measure named "Common Neighborhood Sub-graph density" and combine the similarity with affinity propagation, which is a recently devised clustering algorithm.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.828-837
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• 2008

We propose a method to select representative views of single objects and classes of objects for 3D object retrieval and classification. Our method is based on projected 2D shapes, or views, of the 3D objects, where the representative views are selected by applying affinity propagation to cluster uniformly sampled views. Affinity propagation assigns prototypes to each cluster during the clustering process, thereby providing a natural criterion to select views. We recursively apply affinity propagation to the selected views of objects classified as single classes to obtain representative views of classes of objects. By enabling classification as well as retrieval, effective management of large scale databases for retrieval can be enhanced, since we can avoid exhaustive search over all objects by first classifying the object. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method for both retrieval and classification by experimental results based on the Princeton benchmark database [16].

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.3050-3063
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• 2023

Recommendation systems provide personalized products or services to online users by mining their past preferences. Collaborative filtering is a popular recommendation technique because it is easy to implement. However, with the rapid growth of the number of users in recommendation systems, collaborative filtering suffers from serious scalability and sparsity problems. To address these problems, a novel collaborative filtering recommendation algorithm is proposed. The proposed algorithm partitions the users using affinity propagation clustering, and searches for k nearest neighbors in the partition where active user belongs, which can reduce the range of searching and improve real-time performance. When predicting the ratings of active user's unrated items, mean deviation method is used to impute values for neighbors' missing ratings, thus the sparsity can be decreased and the recommendation quality can be ensured. Experiments based on two different datasets show that the proposed algorithm is excellent both in terms of real-time performance and recommendation quality.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.2511-2520
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• 2018

In this study, Multi-Radial Basis Function Support Vector Machine (Multi-RBF SVM) classifier is introduced based on a composite kernel function. In the proposed multi-RBF support vector machine classifier, the input space is divided into several local subsets considered for extremely nonlinear classification tasks. Each local subset is expressed as nonlinear classification subspace and mapped into feature space by using kernel function. The composite kernel function employs the dual RBF structure. By capturing the nonlinear distribution knowledge of local subsets, the training data is mapped into higher feature space, then Multi-SVM classifier is realized by using the composite kernel function through optimization procedure similar to conventional SVM classifier. The original training data set is partitioned by using some unsupervised learning methods such as clustering methods. In this study, three types of clustering method are considered such as Affinity propagation (AP), Hard C-Mean (HCM) and Iterative Self-Organizing Data Analysis Technique Algorithm (ISODATA). Experimental results on benchmark machine learning datasets show that the proposed method improves the classification performance efficiently.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06c
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• pp.31-32
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• 2012

본 연구는 소셜 네트워크에서 사용자간의 친밀도에 기반하여 보여주는 '친구추천' 이라는 방법을 그래프 클러스터링을 이용하여 접근하고자 한다. 기존의 방법과는 다르게 사용자에게 개인화된 선별 정보를 제공하는데 목적이 있다. 또한 일반적 클러스터링이 아닌 그래프 이론에 근거한 거리 계산을 기반으로 친화력 전파 모델(Affinity Propagation) 클러스터링 기법을 적용하는 방법을 제안한다. 이 방법으로 클러스터링을 진행하여 선별된 같은 그룹 안에 있는 개인화된 친구 추천을 효과적으로 수행할 수 있음을 입증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.1294-1297
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• 2011

최근, Flickr, YouTube 와 같은 사용자 참여형 미디어 공유 및 검색 사이트가 폭발적으로 증가하면서, 이를 멀티미디어 정보 검색 서비스에 효과적으로 활용하기 위한 다양한 연구들이 시도되고 있다. 특히, 이미지에 할당되어 있는 태그를 이용하여 이미지를 효과적으로 검색하기 위한 연구가 활발히 진행 중이다. 그러나 사용자들에 의해 제공되는 소셜 이미지들은 매우 다양한 범위와 주제를 가지고 있기 때문에, 소셜 이미지들의 분류 및 태그 할당을 위한 트레이닝 집합의 획득이 쉽지 않다는 한계점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 데이터 군집화를 위한 클러스터링 알고리즘들 중 K-Means, K-Medoids, Affinity Propagation 을 활용하여 소셜 이미지 집합으로부터 트레이닝 집합을 획득하기 위한 방법들을 살펴 본다. 또한, 각 알고리즘으로부터 획득한 트레이닝 집합을 이용하여 소셜 이미지를 분류한 결과를 비교 분석한다.