16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'02) - Volume 2
Exploratory Analysis of Point Proximity in Subspaces
Quebec City, QC, Canada
August 11-August 15
ISBN: 0-7695-1695-X
We consider clustering as computation of a structure of proximity relationships within a data set in a feature space or its subspaces. We propose a data structure to represent such relationships, and show that, despite unavoidable arbitrariness in the clustering algorithms, constructive uses of their results can be made by studying correlations between multiple proximity structures computed from the same data. We describe a software tool that facilitates such explorations and example applications.