Unsupervised Classification Using Gravity Centers from Scatter Plot

Author(s):  
Adarsh Kumar Khare
Author(s):  
Charles A. Doan ◽  
Ronaldo Vigo

Abstract. Several empirical investigations have explored whether observers prefer to sort sets of multidimensional stimuli into groups by employing one-dimensional or family-resemblance strategies. Although one-dimensional sorting strategies have been the prevalent finding for these unsupervised classification paradigms, several researchers have provided evidence that the choice of strategy may depend on the particular demands of the task. To account for this disparity, we propose that observers extract relational patterns from stimulus sets that facilitate the development of optimal classification strategies for relegating category membership. We conducted a novel constrained categorization experiment to empirically test this hypothesis by instructing participants to either add or remove objects from presented categorical stimuli. We employed generalized representational information theory (GRIT; Vigo, 2011b , 2013a , 2014 ) and its associated formal models to predict and explain how human beings chose to modify these categorical stimuli. Additionally, we compared model performance to predictions made by a leading prototypicality measure in the literature.


2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aksamina M Yohanita ◽  
Bambang Suryobroto ◽  
Agustinus Suyanto

<p><em>Studi morfometrik telah dilakukan dengan mengukur 32 karakter </em><em>dari </em><em>176 spesimen Dobsonia dari Papua. Spesimen-spesimen Dobsonia diwakili oleh enam OTU, yaitu G, B, R, E, SP1, dan SP2. Analisis univariat menghitung seluruh spesimen dewasa yang terdiri dari 171 karakter badan dan sayap dan 176 karakter tengkorak dan gigi pada enam OTU tersebut. Selanjutnya </em><em>digunakan uji-t</em><em> dan PCA </em><em>untuk </em><em>menghitung G, B, dan R, sedangkan tiga OTU lain (E, SP1 dan SP2) tidak dihitung tetapi ikut diproyeksikan ke dalam scatter plot. Hasil </em><em>uji-t </em><em> (p&lt;0.05) menunjukkan ada seksual dimorfisme pada D. minor dan D. beauforti. </em><em>Pemisahan </em><em> </em><em>D. magna, D. minor, </em><em>dan </em><em>D. beauforti nyata pada karakter badan, sayap, dan gigi berdasarkan PCA. D. emersa terpisah dari spesies lainnya pada karakter badan dan tengkorak. Hasil scatter plot pada SP1 dan SP2 mengelompok dengan D. beauforti pada semua karakter (badan, sayap, tengkorak, dan gigi). Sebanyak 32 karakter yang diukur didapatkan karakter taksonomi yaitu WT, HB, dan TV untuk karakter badan; FA, TIB, dan DIG1P untuk karakter sayap; ONL, POW, PL, dan MH untuk karakter tengkorak; I<sup>2</sup>M<sup>2</sup>, M<sup>2</sup>M<sup>2</sup>, WM<sup>1</sup>, dan LM<sup>1</sup> untuk karakter gigi. D. minor yang telah ditemukan di Pulau Waigeo tahun 2007 merupakan catatan baru penyebaran spesies ini, sebelumnya hanya tercatat di </em><em>daratan utama </em><em>Papua dan Pulau Yapen.  </em></p>


Author(s):  
Ning Wang ◽  
Xianhan Zeng ◽  
Renjie Xie ◽  
Zefei Gao ◽  
Yi Zheng ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 355
Author(s):  
Weixian Tan ◽  
Borong Sun ◽  
Chenyu Xiao ◽  
Pingping Huang ◽  
Wei Xu ◽  
...  

Classification based on polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images is an emerging technology, and recent years have seen the introduction of various classification methods that have been proven to be effective to identify typical features of many terrain types. Among the many regions of the study, the Hunshandake Sandy Land in Inner Mongolia, China stands out for its vast area of sandy land, variety of ground objects, and intricate structure, with more irregular characteristics than conventional land cover. Accounting for the particular surface features of the Hunshandake Sandy Land, an unsupervised classification method based on new decomposition and large-scale spectral clustering with superpixels (ND-LSC) is proposed in this study. Firstly, the polarization scattering parameters are extracted through a new decomposition, rather than other decomposition approaches, which gives rise to more accurate feature vector estimate. Secondly, a large-scale spectral clustering is applied as appropriate to meet the massive land and complex terrain. More specifically, this involves a beginning sub-step of superpixels generation via the Adaptive Simple Linear Iterative Clustering (ASLIC) algorithm when the feature vector combined with the spatial coordinate information are employed as input, and subsequently a sub-step of representative points selection as well as bipartite graph formation, followed by the spectral clustering algorithm to complete the classification task. Finally, testing and analysis are conducted on the RADARSAT-2 fully PolSAR dataset acquired over the Hunshandake Sandy Land in 2016. Both qualitative and quantitative experiments compared with several classification methods are conducted to show that proposed method can significantly improve performance on classification.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 1020
Author(s):  
Mohamed Chiheb Ben Nasr ◽  
Sofia Ben Jebara ◽  
Samuel Otis ◽  
Bessam Abdulrazak ◽  
Neila Mezghani

This paper has two objectives: the first is to generate two binary flags to indicate useful frames permitting the measurement of cardiac and respiratory rates from Ballistocardiogram (BCG) signals—in fact, human body activities during measurements can disturb the BCG signal content, leading to difficulties in vital sign measurement; the second objective is to achieve refined BCG signal segmentation according to these activities. The proposed framework makes use of two approaches: an unsupervised classification based on the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and a supervised classification based on K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN). Both of these approaches consider two spectral features, namely the Spectral Flatness Measure (SFM) and Spectral Centroid (SC), determined during the feature extraction step. Unsupervised classification is used to explore the content of the BCG signals, justifying the existence of different classes and permitting the definition of useful hyper-parameters for effective segmentation. In contrast, the considered supervised classification approach aims to determine if the BCG signal content allows the measurement of the heart rate (HR) and the respiratory rate (RR) or not. Furthermore, two levels of supervised classification are used to classify human-body activities into many realistic classes from the BCG signal (e.g., coughing, holding breath, air expiration, movement, et al.). The first one considers frame-by-frame classification, while the second one, aiming to boost the segmentation performance, transforms the frame-by-frame SFM and SC features into temporal series which track the temporal variation of the measures of the BCG signal. The proposed approach constitutes a novelty in this field and represents a powerful method to segment BCG signals according to human body activities, resulting in an accuracy of 94.6%.


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