Semi-supervised Clustering Method for Multi-density Data

Walid Atwa, Kan Li

Abstract: Finding clusters is a challenging problem especially when the clusters are being of widely varied shapes, sizes, and densities. Density-based clustering methods are the most important due to their high ability to detect arbitrary shaped clusters. However, they are depending on two specified parameters (Eps and Minpts) that define a single density. Moreover, most of these methods are unsupervised, which cannot improve the clustering quality by utilizing a small number of prior knowledge. In this paper we show how background knowledge can be used to bias a density-based clustering method for multi-density data. Experimental results confirm that the proposed method gives better results than other semi-supervised and unsupervised clustering algorithms.

External IDs:dblp:conf/dasfaa/AtwaL15