[vtkusers] k-means++

[David Doria]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Liam Kurmos <quantum.leaf at gmail.com> wrote:
> is k-means++ essential a speed up for k-means clustering?  is it
> already integrated in vtkKMeansStatistics?
>
> is there anything in vtk (or otherwise can anyone recommend) something
> that will easily find a suitable number of clusters.
>
> Liam

Hi Liam,

K-means++ is simply a better-than-naive initialization for the k-means
algorithm.

These links should get you started:

http://www.midasjournal.org/browse/publication/766
https://github.com/daviddoria/KMeansClustering

http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/InfoVis/KMeansClustering

David