• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.1659-1664
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• 2011

Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) is one of the most widely used clustering algorithms and has been used in many applications successfully. However, FCM has some shortcomings and initial prototype selection is one of them. As FCM is only guaranteed to converge on a local optimum, different initial prototype results in different clustering. Therefore, much care should be given to the selection of initial prototype. In this paper, a new initialization method for FCM using kernel density estimation (KDE) is proposed to resolve the initialization problem. KDE can be used to estimate non-parametric data distribution and is useful in estimating local density. After KDE, in the proposed method, one initial point is placed at the most dense region and the density of that region is reduced. By iterating the process, initial prototype can be obtained. The initial prototype such obtained showed better result than the randomly selected one commonly used in FCM, which was demonstrated by experimental results.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.11-16
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• 2003

This Paper extracts the edge of main components of face with Gator wavelets transformation in facial expression images. FCM(Fuzzy C-Means) clustering algorithm then extracts the representative feature points of low dimensionality from the edge extracted in neutral face. The feature-points of the neutral face is used as a template to extract the feature-points of facial expression images. To match point to Point feature points on an expression face against each feature point on a neutral face, it consists of two steps using a dynamic linking model, which are called the coarse mapping and the fine mapping. This paper presents an automatic extraction of feature-points by dynamic linking model based on Gabor wavelets and fuzzy C-means(FCM) algorithm. The result of this study was applied to extract features automatically in facial expression recognition based on dimension[1].

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.1677-1685
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• 2014

Major problem in the high voltage power transmission line is the flashover due to polluted ceramic insulators which leads to failure of equipments, catastrophic fires and power outages. This paper deals with the development of a better diagnostic tool to predict the flashover and pollution severity of power transmission line insulators based on the wavelet transform and fuzzy c-means clustering approach. In this work, laboratory experiments were carried out on power transmission line porcelain insulators under AC voltages at different pollution conditions and corresponding leakage current patterns were measured. Discrete wavelet transform technique is employed to extract important features of leakage current signals. Variation of leakage current magnitude and distortion ratio at different pollution levels were analyzed. Fuzzy c-means algorithm is used to cluster the extracted features of the leakage current data. Test results clearly show that the flashover and pollution severity of power transmission line insulators can be effectively realized through fuzzy clustering technique and it will be useful to carry out preventive maintenance work.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.27-31
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a new quantization method using fuzzy C-means clustering(FCM) for lumbar ultrasound image recognition. Unlike usual histogram based quantization, our method first classifies regions into 10 clusters and sorts them by the central value of each cluster. Those clusters are represented with different colors. This method is efficient to handle lumbar ultrasound image since in this part of human body, the brightness values are distributed to doubly skewed histogram in general thus the usual histogram based quantization is not strong to extract different areas. Experiment conducted with 15 real lumbar images verified the efficacy of proposed method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04b
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• pp.598-600
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• 2000

영상에 존재하는 객체들을 인식하기 위해서는 먼저 영상의 영역 분할이 필요하다. 통계적 모델을 이용한 영상의 영역 분할은 미리서 분할하고자 하는 클러스터의 수를 결정한 후 이를 토대로 영상을 분할하게 된다. 그러나 영상마다 특성상 분할하고자 하는 클러스터 수가 다를 경우 이를 수동적으로 해주는 것은 비능률적이다. 따라서 본 논문은 영상의 영역 분할에 통계적 모델에서 미리 결정해줘야 하는 클러스터의 수 문제를 자동으로 검출하고 퍼지 c-Means 클러스터링 알고리즘을 통한 영상의 영역 분할 시 노이즈 문제를 이웃한 픽셀들의 멤버쉽 값을 평균화함으로써 해결하는 방법을 제안하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.31B no.6
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• pp.43-52
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• 1994

A design method of rule-based fuzzy modeling is presented for the model identification of complex and nonlinear systems. The proposed rule-based fuzzy modeling implements system structure and parameter identification in the efficient form of ``IF....,THEN...', using the theories of optimization theory , linguistic fuzzy implication rules and fuzzy c-means clustering. Three kinds of method for fuzzy modeling presented in this paper include simplified inference (type I), linear inference (type 2), and modified linear inference (type 3). In order to identify premise structure and parameter of fuzzy implication rules, fuzzy c- means clustering and modified complex method are used respectively and the least sequare method is utilized for the identification of optimum consequence parameters. Time series data for gas furance and those for sewage treatment process are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed rule-based fuzzy modeling. Comparison shows that the proposed method can produce the fuzzy model with higher accuracy than previous other studies.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.253-258
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• 2005

In this study, we introduce a new category of fuzzy inference systems based on information granulation to carry out the model identification of complex and nonlinear systems. Informal speaking, information granules are viewed as linked collections of objects (data, in particular) drawn together by the criteria of proximity, similarity, or functionality. To identify the structure of fuzzy rules we use genetic algorithms (GAs). Granulation of information with the aid of Hard C-Means (HCM) clustering algorithm help determine the initial parameters of fuzzy model such as the initial apexes of the membership functions and the initial values of polynomial functions being used in the premise and consequence part of the fuzzy rules. And the initial parameters are tuned effectively with the aid of the genetic algorithms and the least square method (LSM). The proposed model is contrasted with the performance of the conventional fuzzy models in the literature.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2003.09a
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• pp.431-434
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• 2003

In this paper we introduce a modified objective function for fuzzy c-means clustering with logistic regression model in the presence of noise cluster. The logistic regression model is commonly used to describe the effect of one or several explanatory variables on a binary response variable. In real application there is very often no sharp boundary between clusters so that fuzzy clustering is often better suited for the data.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.2098-2106
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• 2014

In the area of clustering, there are numerous approaches to construct clusters in the input space. For regression problem, when forming clusters being a part of the overall model, the relationships between the input space and the output space are essential and have to be taken into consideration. Conditional Fuzzy C-Means (c-FCM) clustering offers an opportunity to analyze the structure in the input space with the mechanism of supervision implied by the distribution of data present in the output space. However, like other clustering methods, c-FCM focuses on the distribution of the data. In this paper, we introduce a new method, which by making use of the ambiguity index focuses on the boundaries of the clusters whose determination is essential to the quality of the ensuing classification procedures. The introduced design is illustrated with the aid of numeric examples that provide a detailed insight into the performance of the fuzzy classifiers and quantify several essentials design aspects.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.57 no.3
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• pp.466-472
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• 2008

The paper concerns Fuzzy C-Means clustering based fuzzy neural networks (FCM-FNN) and the optimization of the network is carried out by means of hierarchal fair competition-based parallel genetic algorithm (HFCPGA). FCM-FNN is the extended architecture of Radial Basis Function Neural Network (RBFNN). FCM algorithm is used to determine centers and widths of RBFs. In the proposed network, the membership functions of the premise part of fuzzy rules do not assume any explicit functional forms such as Gaussian, ellipsoidal, triangular, etc., so its resulting fitness values directly rely on the computation of the relevant distance between data points by means of FCM. Also, as the consequent part of fuzzy rules extracted by the FCM-FNN model, the order of four types of polynomials can be considered such as constant, linear, quadratic and modified quadratic. Since the performance of FCM-FNN is affected by some parameters of FCM-FNN such as a specific subset of input variables, fuzzification coefficient of FCM, the number of rules and the order of polynomials of consequent part of fuzzy rule, we need the structural as well as parametric optimization of the network. In this study, the HFCPGA which is a kind of multipopulation-based parallel genetic algorithms(PGA) is exploited to carry out the structural optimization of FCM-FNN. Moreover the HFCPGA is taken into consideration to avoid a premature convergence related to the optimization problems. The proposed model is demonstrated with the use of two representative numerical examples.