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  • Open Access
7 Citations
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An Improved K-Means Algorithm Based on Contour Similarity

  • Jing Zhao,
  • Yanke Bao,
  • Dongsheng Li and
  • Xinguo Guan

15 July 2024

The traditional k-means algorithm is widely used in large-scale data clustering because of its easy implementation and efficient process, but it also suffers from the disadvantages of local optimality and poor robustness. In this study, a Csk-means a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,533 Views
15 Pages

An Improved K-Means Algorithm Based on Evidence Distance

  • Ailin Zhu,
  • Zexi Hua,
  • Yu Shi,
  • Yongchuan Tang and
  • Lingwei Miao

21 November 2021

The main influencing factors of the clustering effect of the k-means algorithm are the selection of the initial clustering center and the distance measurement between the sample points. The traditional k-mean algorithm uses Euclidean distance to meas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,775 Views
24 Pages

Improved Honey Badger Algorithm and Its Application to K-Means Clustering

  • Shuhao Jiang,
  • Huimin Gao,
  • Yizi Lu,
  • Haoran Song,
  • Yong Zhang and
  • Mengqian Wang

13 January 2025

As big data continues to evolve, cluster analysis still has a place. Among them, the K-means algorithm is the most widely used method in the field of clustering, which can cause unstable clustering results due to the random selection of the initial c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,804 Views
17 Pages

2 September 2022

Most of data set can be represented in an asymmetric matrix. How to mine the uncertain information from the matrix is the primary task of data processing. As a typical unsupervised learning method, three-way k-means clustering algorithm uses core reg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,527 Views
14 Pages

Improved Constrained k-Means Algorithm for Clustering with Domain Knowledge

  • Peihuang Huang,
  • Pei Yao,
  • Zhendong Hao,
  • Huihong Peng and
  • Longkun Guo

26 September 2021

Witnessing the tremendous development of machine learning technology, emerging machine learning applications impose challenges of using domain knowledge to improve the accuracy of clustering provided that clustering suffers a compromising accuracy ra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
226 Views
34 Pages

31 December 2025

Oversampling is common and effective in resolving the classification problem of imbalanced data. Traditional oversampling methods are prone to generating overlapping or noisy samples. Clustering can effectively alleviate the above problems to a certa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,060 Views
22 Pages

An Improved Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Algorithm Combined with K-Means for Audio Noise Reduction

  • Yan Liu,
  • Haozhen Zhu,
  • Yongtuo Cui,
  • Xiaoyu Yu,
  • Haibin Wu and
  • Aili Wang

21 October 2024

Clustering algorithms have the characteristics of being simple and efficient and can complete calculations without a large number of datasets, making them suitable for application in noise reduction processing for audio module mass production testing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,897 Views
22 Pages

21 April 2018

K-means clustering is an important and popular technique in data mining. Unfortunately, for any given dataset (not knowledge-base), it is very difficult for a user to estimate the proper number of clusters in advance, and it also has the tendency of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
7,955 Views
20 Pages

Clustering is one of the most significant applications in the big data field. However, using the clustering technique with big data requires an ample amount of processing power and resources due to the complexity and resulting increment in the cluste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,456 Views
15 Pages

26 September 2023

This article presents a classification method that utilizes impedance spectrum features and an enhanced K-means algorithm for Lithium-ion batteries. Additionally, a parameter identification method for the fractional order model is proposed, which is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,436 Views
18 Pages

Reasonable semantic partition of indoor areas can improve space utilization, optimize property management, and enhance safety and convenience. Existing algorithms for such partitions have drawbacks, such as the inability to consider semantics, slow c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,775 Views
16 Pages

An Improved Optical Flow Algorithm Based on Mask-R-CNN and K-Means for Velocity Calculation

  • Yahui Peng,
  • Xiaochen Liu,
  • Chong Shen,
  • Haoqian Huang,
  • Donghua Zhao,
  • Huiliang Cao and
  • Xiaoting Guo

13 July 2019

Aiming at enhancing the accuracy and reliability of velocity calculation in vision navigation, an improved method is proposed in this paper. The method integrates Mask-R-CNN (Mask Region-based Convolutional Neural Network) and K-Means with the pyrami...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,007 Views
19 Pages

Study on Single-Tree Segmentation of Chinese Fir Plantations Using Coupled Local Maximum and Height-Weighted Improved K-Means Algorithm

  • Xiangyu Chen,
  • Kunyong Yu,
  • Shuhan Yu,
  • Zhongyang Hu,
  • Hongru Tan,
  • Yichen Chen,
  • Xiang Huang and
  • Jian Liu

26 October 2023

Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) is a major timber species in China, and obtaining and monitoring the parameters of Chinese fir plantations is of great practical significance. With the help of the K-means algorithm and UAV-LiDAR data, the effici...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,239 Views
18 Pages

29 February 2024

With the increasing complexity of patrol tasks, the use of deep reinforcement learning for collaborative coverage path planning (CPP) of multi-mobile robots has become a new hotspot. Taking into account the complexity of environmental factors and ope...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,490 Views
22 Pages

26 April 2023

This study proposes an optimal scheduling method for complex integrated energy systems. The proposed method employs a heuristic algorithm to maximize its energy, economy, and environment indices and optimize the system operation plan. It uses the k-m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,429 Views
24 Pages

8 February 2025

To address the issue of excessive grid-connected power fluctuations in wind farms, this paper proposes a capacity optimization method for a hybrid energy storage system (HESS) based on wind power two-stage decomposition. First, considering the suscep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,762 Views
25 Pages

16 June 2024

The precision of short-term photovoltaic power forecasts is of utmost importance for the planning and operation of the electrical grid system. To enhance the precision of short-term output power prediction in photovoltaic systems, this paper proposes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,620 Views
31 Pages

An Improved Multi-Threshold Clutter Filtering Algorithm for W-Band Cloud Radar Based on K-Means Clustering

  • Zhao Shi,
  • Lingjiang Huang,
  • Fengyuan Wu,
  • Yong Lei,
  • Huiying Wang and
  • Zhiya Tang

11 December 2024

This study investigates the application of an improved multi-threshold method based on the K-means algorithm for clutter filtering in W-band cloud and fog radar observations. Utilizing W-band millimeter-wave cloud and fog radar data collected from Ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,175 Views
17 Pages

Classification of Electricity Consumption Behavior Based on Improved K-Means and LSTM

  • Hua Li,
  • Bo Hu,
  • Yubo Liu,
  • Bo Yang,
  • Xuefang Liu,
  • Guangdi Li,
  • Zhenyu Wang and
  • Bowen Zhou

19 August 2021

Power big data-based artificial intelligence or data mining methods, which can be used to analyze electricity consumption behavior, have been widely applied to provide targeted marketing services for electricity consumers. However, the traditional cl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,577 Views
28 Pages

28 April 2025

: Image segmentation is an important part of ore particle size detection, and the quality of image segmentation directly affects the accuracy and reliability of particle size detection. Due to the poor quality and low efficiency of ore particle image...

  • Article
  • Open Access
930 Views
41 Pages

To address the insufficient global search efficiency of the original Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA), this paper proposes an enhanced variant (ImWOA) integrating three strategies. First, a dynamic cluster center-guided search mechanism based on K-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,828 Views
19 Pages

Sailing speed is a critical factor affecting the ship’s energy consumption and operating costs for a voyage. Inland waterways present a complex navigation environment due to their narrow channels, numerous curved segments, and significant varia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,567 Views
19 Pages

Optimal Allocation of Intermittent Distributed Generation under Active Management

  • Zhong Shi,
  • Zhijie Wang,
  • Yue Jin,
  • Nengling Tai,
  • Xiuchen Jiang and
  • Xiaoyu Yang

30 September 2018

In recent years, distributed generation (DG) has developed rapidly. Renewable energy, represented by wind energy and solar energy, has been widely studied and utilized. At present, most distributed generators follow the principle of “installati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,311 Views
17 Pages

A Distribution Network Planning Method Considering the Distributed Energy Resource Flexibility of Virtual Power Plants

  • Zhichun Yang,
  • Gang Han,
  • Fan Yang,
  • Yu Shen,
  • Yu Liu,
  • Huaidong Min,
  • Zhiqiang Zhou,
  • Bin Zhou,
  • Wei Hu and
  • Yang Lei

30 September 2023

To solve the overload problem caused by the high proportion of renewable energy into the power system, it is particularly important to find a suitable distribution network planning scheme. Existing studies have effectively reduced the planning cost b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,365 Views
23 Pages

4 September 2024

The high proportion of distributed photovoltaic (DPV) access has changed the traditional distribution network structure and operation mode, posing a huge threat to the stable operation and economy of the distribution network. Aiming at a reasonable a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
157 Citations
15,263 Views
18 Pages

Automatic Human Brain Tumor Detection in MRI Image Using Template-Based K Means and Improved Fuzzy C Means Clustering Algorithm

  • Md Shahariar Alam,
  • Md Mahbubur Rahman,
  • Mohammad Amazad Hossain,
  • Md Khairul Islam,
  • Kazi Mowdud Ahmed,
  • Khandaker Takdir Ahmed,
  • Bikash Chandra Singh and
  • Md Sipon Miah

In recent decades, human brain tumor detection has become one of the most challenging issues in medical science. In this paper, we propose a model that includes the template-based K means and improved fuzzy C means (TKFCM) algorithm for detecting hum...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,878 Views
36 Pages

21 August 2025

Efficient clustering of high-spatial-dimensional satellite image datasets remains a critical challenge, particularly due to the computational demands of spectral distance calculations, random centroid initialization, and sensitivity to outliers in co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,007 Views
24 Pages

31 August 2022

With the rapid development of world shipping, oil spill accidents such as tanker collisions, illegal sewage discharges, and oil pipeline ruptures occur frequently. As the SAR system expands from single polarization to multipolarization, the Polarmetr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,528 Views
16 Pages

13 September 2018

The energy use analysis of coal-fired power plant units is of significance for energy conservation and consumption reduction. One of the most serious problems attributed to Chinese coal-fired power plants is coal waste. Several units in one plant may...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,868 Views
19 Pages

11 April 2021

Traditional information retrieval systems return a ranked list of results to a user’s query. This list is often long, and the user cannot explore all the results retrieved. It is also ineffective for a highly ambiguous language such as Arabic. The mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,289 Views
22 Pages

An Improved Trilateration Positioning Algorithm with Anchor Node Combination and K-Means Clustering

  • Qinghua Luo,
  • Kexin Yang,
  • Xiaozhen Yan,
  • Jianfeng Li,
  • Chenxu Wang and
  • Zhiquan Zhou

15 August 2022

As a classic positioning algorithm with a simple principle and low computational complexity, the trilateration positioning algorithm utilizes the coordinates of three anchor nodes to determine the position of an unknown node, which is widely applied...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,756 Views
16 Pages

Automatic Detection System of Olive Trees Using Improved K-Means Algorithm

  • Muhammad Waleed,
  • Tai-Won Um,
  • Aftab Khan and
  • Umair Khan

26 February 2020

Olive cultivation over the past few years has spread across Mediterranean countries with Spain being the world’s largest olive producer among them. Because olives are a major part of the economy for such countries keeping records of their tree...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,547 Views
22 Pages

16 December 2024

In this paper, we propose an enhanced clustering protocol that integrates an improved K-means with a Mobility-Aware Cluster Head-Election Scored (IK-MACHES) algorithm, designed for extending the lifetime and operational efficiency of Wireless Sensor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,410 Views
18 Pages

21 April 2021

In order to rationally lay out the location of automobile maintenance service stations, a method of location selection of maintenance service stations based on vehicle trajectory big data is proposed. Taking the vehicle trajectory data as the demand...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,048 Views
23 Pages

18 August 2025

The Angular Bisector Insertion Constructive Heuristic Algorithm (ABIA), though effective for small-scale TSPs, suffers from reduced solution quality and high computational complexity in larger instances due to the degradation of its geometric propert...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,367 Views
12 Pages

Tree-Based Algorithm for Stable and Efficient Data Clustering

  • Hasan Aljabbouli,
  • Abdullah Albizri and
  • Antoine Harfouche

The K-means algorithm is a well-known and widely used clustering algorithm due to its simplicity and convergence properties. However, one of the drawbacks of the algorithm is its instability. This paper presents improvements to the K-means algorithm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,641 Views
27 Pages

30 November 2022

Metaheuristic algorithms have been hybridized with the standard K-means to address the latter’s challenges in finding a solution to automatic clustering problems. However, the distance calculations required in the standard K-means phase of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,249 Views
47 Pages

28 January 2025

The weighted K-means clustering algorithm is widely recognized for its ability to assign varying importance to features in clustering tasks. This paper introduces an enhanced version of the algorithm, incorporating a bi-partitioning strategy to segre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,295 Views
26 Pages

11 August 2022

With rapid economic and demographic growth, traffic conditions in medium and large cities are becoming extremely congested. Numerous metropolitan management organizations hope to promote the coordination of traffic and urban development by formulatin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,848 Views
34 Pages

19 December 2022

Automatic clustering problems require clustering algorithms to automatically estimate the number of clusters in a dataset. However, the classical K-means requires the specification of the required number of clusters a priori. To address this problem,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,877 Views
17 Pages

28 July 2021

Using random projection, a method to speed up both kernel k-means and centroid initialization with k-means++ is proposed. We approximate the kernel matrix and distances in a lower-dimensional space Rd before the kernel k-means clustering motivated by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,419 Views
18 Pages

29 September 2024

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) have found more and more applications in remote control and monitoring systems. Energy management in the network is crucial because all nodes in the WSN are energy constrained. Therefore, the design and implementation o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,972 Views
27 Pages

Modeling and Analysis of New Hybrid Clustering Technique for Vehicular Ad Hoc Network

  • Hazem Noori Abdulrazzak,
  • Goh Chin Hock,
  • Nurul Asyikin Mohamed Radzi,
  • Nadia M. L. Tan and
  • Chiew Foong Kwong

12 December 2022

Many researchers have proposed algorithms to improve the network performance of vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) clustering techniques for different applications. The effectiveness of the clustering model is the most important challenge. The K-Means...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,885 Views
15 Pages

Acceleration of the Multi-Level Fast Multipole Algorithm Using K-Means Clustering

  • Dal-jae Yun,
  • Haewon Jung,
  • Hoon Kang,
  • Woo-Yong Yang and
  • Dong-Wook Seo

16 November 2020

The multilevel fast multipole algorithm (MLFMA) using K-means clustering to accelerate electromagnetic scattering analysis for large complex targets is presented. By replacing the regular cube grouping with the K-means clustering, the addition theore...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,425 Views
27 Pages

17 December 2023

K-Means is a “de facto” standard clustering algorithm due to its simplicity and efficiency. K-Means, though, strongly depends on the initialization of the centroids (seeding method) and often gets stuck in a local sub-optimal solution. K-...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
72 Citations
9,699 Views
61 Pages

26 November 2021

K-means clustering algorithm is a partitional clustering algorithm that has been used widely in many applications for traditional clustering due to its simplicity and low computational complexity. This clustering technique depends on the user specifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,294 Views
28 Pages

18 January 2024

With the development of cloud computing, interest in database outsourcing has recently increased. However, when the database is outsourced, there is a problem in that the information of the data owner is exposed to internal and external attackers. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,347 Views
25 Pages

Lasso-Based k-Means++ Clustering

  • Shazia Parveen and
  • Miin-Shen Yang

Clustering is a powerful and efficient technique for pattern recognition which improves classification accuracy. In machine learning, it is a useful unsupervised learning approach due to its simplicity and efficiency for clustering applications. The...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,043 Views
9 Pages

1 November 2024

In this paper, a method is presented in order to conduct data classification through the use of a Self-Organizing Map (SOM) Artificial Neural Network (ANN). At first, the performance of the K-means algorithm in relation to the classification of the d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,932 Views
20 Pages

3 September 2022

In order to minimize execution times, improve the quality of solutions, and address more extensive target situations, optimization techniques, particularly metaheuristics, are continually improved. Hybridizing procedures are one of these noteworthy s...

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