SWGMM: a semi-wrapped Gaussian mixture model for clustering of circular–linear data

Pattern Analysis and Applications - Tập 19 - Trang 631-645 - 2014
Anandarup Roy1, Swapan K. Parui1, Utpal Roy2
1Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
2Department of Computer and System Sciences, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India

Tóm tắt

Finite mixture models are widely used to perform model-based clustering of multivariate data sets. Most of the existing mixture models work with linear data; whereas, real-life applications may involve multivariate data having both circular and linear characteristics. No existing mixture models can accommodate such correlated circular–linear data. In this paper, we consider designing a mixture model for multivariate data having one circular variable. In order to construct a circular–linear joint distribution with proper inclusion of correlation terms, we use the semi-wrapped Gaussian distribution. Further, we construct a mixture model (termed SWGMM) of such joint distributions. This mixture model is capable of approximating the distribution of multi-modal circular–linear data. An unsupervised learning of the mixture parameters is proposed based on expectation maximization method. Clustering is performed using maximum a posteriori criterion. To evaluate the performance of SWGMM, we choose the task of color image segmentation in LCH space. We present comprehensive results and compare SWGMM with existing methods. Our study reveals that the proposed mixture model outperforms the other methods in most cases.

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