• List of Articles K-means

      • Open Access Article

        1 - Image Processing of steel sheets for Defect Detection by using Gabor Wavelet
        masoud shafiee mostafa sadeghi
        In different steps of steel production, various defects appear on the surface of the sheet. Putting aside the causes of defects, precise identification of their kinds helps classify steel sheet correctly, thereby it allocates a high percentage of quality control process More
        In different steps of steel production, various defects appear on the surface of the sheet. Putting aside the causes of defects, precise identification of their kinds helps classify steel sheet correctly, thereby it allocates a high percentage of quality control process. QC of steel sheet for promotion of product quality and maintaining the competitive market is of great importance. In this paper, in addition to quick review of image process techniques used, using image process by means of Gabor wavelet, a fast and precise solution for detection of texture defects in steel sheet is presented. In first step, the approach extracts considerable texture specification from image by using Gabor wavelet. The specification includes both different directions and different frequencies. Then using statistical methods, images are selected that have more obvious defects, and location of defects is determined. Offering the experimental samples, the accuracy and speed of the method is indicated. Manuscript profile
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        2 - Foreground-Back ground Segmentation using K-Means Clustering Algorithm and Support Vector Machine
        Masoumeh Rezaei mansoureh rezaei Masoud Rezaei
        Foreground-background image segmentation has been an important research problem. It is one of the main tasks in the field of computer vision whose purpose is detecting variations in image sequences. It provides candidate objects for further attentional selection, e.g., More
        Foreground-background image segmentation has been an important research problem. It is one of the main tasks in the field of computer vision whose purpose is detecting variations in image sequences. It provides candidate objects for further attentional selection, e.g., in video surveillance. In this paper, we introduce an automatic and efficient Foreground-background segmentation. The proposed method starts with the detection of visually salient image regions with a saliency map that uses Fourier transform and a Gaussian filter. Then, each point in the maps classifies as salient or non-salient using a binary threshold. Next, a hole filling operator is applied for filling holes in the achieved image, and the area-opening method is used for removing small objects from the image. For better separation of the foreground and background, dilation and erosion operators are also used. Erosion and dilation operators are applied for shrinking and expanding the achieved region. Afterward, the foreground and background samples are achieved. Because the number of these data is large, K-means clustering is used as a sampling technique to restrict computational efforts in the region of interest. K cluster centers for each region are set for training of Support Vector Machine (SVM). SVM, as a powerful binary classifier, is used to segment the interest area from the background. The proposed method is applied on a benchmark dataset consisting of 1000 images and experimental results demonstrate the supremacy of the proposed method to some other foreground-background segmentation methods in terms of ER, VI, GCE, and PRI. Manuscript profile
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        3 - Developing a hybrid model to clustering Tehran Stock Exchange companies using meta-heuristic algorithms
          Ali Mohaghar
        Investment decision, have always has been one of the most important issues. Investors are trying to achieve the highest efficiency and the least risk by selecting the best companies from Among a wide variety of companies considering to various financial indicators. Acco More
        Investment decision, have always has been one of the most important issues. Investors are trying to achieve the highest efficiency and the least risk by selecting the best companies from Among a wide variety of companies considering to various financial indicators. Accordingly, today, there are many ways to analyze the data from this company. One of the ways is clustering that classification of the companies. However, the present study aimed to identify and distinguish successful from unsuccessful companies in Tehran Stock Exchange has been done using K-means clustering. Then this problem is solved using meta-heuristic algorithms. The results indicate that meta-heuristic algorithms compared with conventional methods, more efficient and have led to a global optimum. Also these results of Altman’s bankruptcy model were confirmed results of meta-heuristic algorithms. Manuscript profile
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        4 - A New Method for Clustering Wind Speed Data in Wind Power Plants Using FCM and PSO Algorithms
        H. Afrakhte Y. Bostani Amlashi
        Fuzzy clustering Method (FCM) is a commonly used method of data clustering. But, when too much data are available, the use of this method usually may lead to non-homogeneous distribution of data. In this paper a new method for clustering of wind speed data in wind farms More
        Fuzzy clustering Method (FCM) is a commonly used method of data clustering. But, when too much data are available, the use of this method usually may lead to non-homogeneous distribution of data. In this paper a new method for clustering of wind speed data in wind farms is presented. In this method, using the PSO algorithm, wind speed data is clustered and the obtained results are compared with those of FCM and K-means clustering methods. Simulation results indicate the proposed method has better convergence than K-means and FCM methods, especially in conditions which too much data are not available. Manuscript profile
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        5 - Segmentation of Steel Surfaces towards Defect Detection Using New Gabor Composition Method
        S. J. Alemasoom A. Monadjemi H. A. Alemasoom
        The images of steel surfaces are generally textural images. There are different texture analysis methods to extract features from these images. In those methods using multi-scale/multi-directional analysis, Gabor filters are used for feature extraction. In this paper, w More
        The images of steel surfaces are generally textural images. There are different texture analysis methods to extract features from these images. In those methods using multi-scale/multi-directional analysis, Gabor filters are used for feature extraction. In this paper, we extract texture features using the optimum Gabor filter bank. This filter bank is designed in a way that diverse filtering frequency and orientation will allow it to extract considerable amounts of texture information from the input images. We also introduce a new method called Gabor composition for segmentation and defect detection of steel surfaces. In this method, using two different algorithms, the input image is decomposed into detail images using an appropriate Gabor filter bank and then selected detail images are re composed. The created feature map illustrates the defective areas well. By calculating data distribution of detail images and comparing them, the second method of Gabor composition can accomplish segmentation without needing the normal images and the number of detail images to re-compose. Furthermore, we did different tests towards optimizing of segmentation by means of classifiers. Using a K-means classifier and adding gray levels to the extracted features, complete the segmentation procedure. The experimental results show that the Gabor composition method in most of the tests has got better defect detection performance than the ordinary K-means classifier and the standard wavelet method; also the Second method of Gabor composition has got the best performance over all. Manuscript profile