Feature selection based on fuzzy distances between clusters: first results on simulated data

DOI10.1007/3-540-44732-6_19MaRDI QIDQ2763421zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Teófilo E. Campos, I. Bloch, Roberto Marcondes jun. Cesar

Publication date 15 January 2002

Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/2013/20130186

zbMATH Keywords

and fuzzy distancefeature selectionfloating search methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Pattern recognition, speech recognition (68T10) Computing methodologies and applications (68U99)

Review text

Automatic feature selection methods are important in many situations where a large set of possible features are available from which a subset should be selected in order to compose suitable feature vectors. Several methods for automatic feature selection are based on two main points: a selection algorithm and a criterion function. Many criterion functions usually adopted depend on a distance between the clusters, being extremely important to the final result. Most distances between clusters are more suitable to convex sets, and do not produce good results for concave clusters, or for clusters presenting overlapping areas. In order to circumvent these problems, this paper presents a new approach using a criterion function based on a fuzzy distance. In our approach, each cluster is fuzzified and a fuzzy distance is applied to the fuzzy sets. Experimental results illustrating the advantages of the new approach are discussed. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0977.68799].

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