In this paper a stable and unsupervised version of FCM algorithm named FCMO is presented. The originality of the proposed FCMO algorithm relies: i) on the usage of an adaptive incremental technique to initialize the class centres that calls into question the intermediate initializations; this technique renders the algorithm stable and deterministic, and the classification results do not vary from a run to another, and ii) on the unsupervised evaluation criteria of the intermediate classification result to estimate the optimal number of classes; this makes the algorithm unsupervised. The efficiency of this optimized version of FCM is shown through some experimental results for its stability and its correct class number estimation.

Date Published: 30 April 2015
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 9534, Twelfth International Conference on Quality Control by Artificial Vision 2015, 953414 (30 April 2015); doi: 10.1117/12.2182595

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9534:
Twelfth International Conference on Quality Control by Artificial Vision 2015
Fabrice Meriaudeau; Olivier Aubreton, Editor(s)