scholarly journals A Clustering Method for Data in Cylindrical Coordinates

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuhisa Fujita

We propose a new clustering method for data in cylindrical coordinates based on the k-means. The goal of the k-means family is to maximize an optimization function, which requires a similarity. Thus, we need a new similarity to obtain the new clustering method for data in cylindrical coordinates. In this study, we first derive a new similarity for the new clustering method by assuming a particular probabilistic model. A data point in cylindrical coordinates has radius, azimuth, and height. We assume that the azimuth is sampled from a von Mises distribution and the radius and the height are independently generated from isotropic Gaussian distributions. We derive the new similarity from the log likelihood of the assumed probability distribution. Our experiments demonstrate that the proposed method using the new similarity can appropriately partition synthetic data defined in cylindrical coordinates. Furthermore, we apply the proposed method to color image quantization and show that the methods successfully quantize a color image with respect to the hue element.

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Karim El mokhtari ◽  
Serge Reboul ◽  
Georges Stienne ◽  
Jean Bernard Choquel ◽  
Benaissa Amami ◽  
...  

In this article, we propose a multimodel filter for circular data. The so-called Circular Interacting Multimodel filter is derived in a Bayesian framework with the circular normal von Mises distribution. The aim of the proposed filter is to obtain the same performance in the circular domain as the classical IMM filter in the linear domain. In our approach, the mixing and fusion stages of the Circular Interacting Multimodel filter are, respectively, defined from the a priori and from the a posteriori circular distributions of the state angle knowing the measurements and according to a set of models. We propose in this article a set of circular models that will be used in order to detect the vehicle maneuvers from heading measurements. The Circular Interacting Multimodel filter performances are assessed on synthetic data and we show on real data a vehicle maneuver detection application.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Ji Ma

A common method, due to Zhang and Luck (2008), for analyzing delayed-estimation data with a circular stimulus variable is to fit a mixture of a Von Mises distribution and a uniform distribution. The uniform distribution represents random guesses, presumably made when an item is not kept in memory. When I generate synthetic data from a variable-precision model with zero guessing, the method estimates the guess rate to be nonzero and often high. This is due to model mismatch: the fitted model is not matched to the data-generating (true) model. In real data, this could be a problem if one considers the variable-precision model a plausible candidate model and draws conclusions based on the estimated guess rates. I describe five solutions to this problem: analyzing the residual, ruling out the variable-precision model, robust inference, fitting a hybrid model, and using model-free statistics. I hope that these solutions can contribute to good data analysis practices in the study of working memory.


2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wamberto J. L. Queiroz ◽  
Francisco Madeiro ◽  
Waslon Terllizzie A. Lopes ◽  
Marcelo S. Alencar

This paper presents mathematical expressions for the spatial correlation between elements of linear and circular antenna arrays, considering cosine, Gaussian, and Von Mises distributions, for the direction of arrival (DoA) of the electromagnetic waves at the receiver antenna. The expressions obtained for the Von Mises distribution can include or not the mutual coupling effect between the elements and are simpler than those obtained for the cosine and the Gaussian distributions of the angle of arrival. The Von Mises distribution produces spatial correlation expressions in terms of Bessel and trigonometric functions. An exact expression for the spatial correlation, taking into account the mutual coupling, for the circular and linear arrays and an arbitrary number of elements are presented. It can be verified, by numerical evaluation of the expressions, that the coupling between the elements correlates the electromagnetic field, and a separation of half wavelength could not be enough to decorrelate them.


1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 1695-1706 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.A. Yfantis ◽  
L.E. Borgman

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 471-479
Author(s):  
Nurkhairany Amyra Mokhtar ◽  
Basri Badyalina ◽  
Kerk Lee Chang ◽  
Fatin Farazh Ya'acob ◽  
Ahmad Faiz Ghazali ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-370
Author(s):  
ADRIAN KOLLER ◽  
GUILHERME TORRES ◽  
MICHAEL BUSER ◽  
RANDY TAYLOR ◽  
BILL RAUN ◽  
...  

SUMMARYHand-planted plots of across-row-oriented corn seeds (Zeamays L.) produce highly structured leaf canopies and have shown significant yield advantage over randomly planted plots in prior studies. For further investigation of the phenomenon by simulation, the objective of this study was to develop a probabilistic model for the correlation between seed orientation and initial plant orientation. In greenhouse trials, the azimuthal orientation of kernels of four different hybrids was recorded at planting. At collar setting of the seed leaf, the orientation of the seed leaf was determined and the angular data subjected to the analytical methods of circular statistics. The results indicate that the correlation between seed azimuth and seed leaf azimuth can be described by a von Mises distribution. The probabilistic seed to seed leaf azimuth model described herein may be implemented in simulation models to investigate the effect of canopy architecture, canopy closure and light interception efficiency of corn under conditions of seed oriented planting.


Author(s):  
Muhamad Alias Md. Jedi ◽  
Robiah Adnan

TCLUST is a method in statistical clustering technique which is based on modification of trimmed k-means clustering algorithm. It is called “crisp” clustering approach because the observation is can be eliminated or assigned to a group. TCLUST strengthen the group assignment by putting constraint to the cluster scatter matrix. The emphasis in this paper is to restrict on the eigenvalues, λ of the scatter matrix. The idea of imposing constraints is to maximize the log-likelihood function of spurious-outlier model. A review of different robust clustering approach is presented as a comparison to TCLUST methods. This paper will discuss the nature of TCLUST algorithm and how to determine the number of cluster or group properly and measure the strength of group assignment. At the end of this paper, R-package on TCLUST implement the types of scatter restriction, making the algorithm to be more flexible for choosing the number of clusters and the trimming proportion.


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