Using Greedy algorithm: DBSCAN revisited II

J Zhejiang Univ Sci. 2004 Nov;5(11):1405-12. doi: 10.1631/jzus.2004.1405.

Abstract

The density-based clustering algorithm presented is different from the classical Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) (Ester et al., 1996), and has the following advantages: first, Greedy algorithm substitutes for R(*)-tree (Bechmann et al., 1990) in DBSCAN to index the clustering space so that the clustering time cost is decreased to great extent and I/O memory load is reduced as well; second, the merging condition to approach to arbitrary-shaped clusters is designed carefully so that a single threshold can distinguish correctly all clusters in a large spatial dataset though some density-skewed clusters live in it. Finally, authors investigate a robotic navigation and test two artificial datasets by the proposed algorithm to verify its effectiveness and efficiency.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Artificial Intelligence*
  • Cluster Analysis*
  • Database Management Systems*
  • Databases, Factual
  • Information Storage and Retrieval / methods*
  • Pattern Recognition, Automated / methods*
  • Software