Data Clustering

Chapter 14

Clustering Multimedia Data

Shen-Fu Tsai

Microsoft Inc.Redmond, [e-mail]

Guo-Jun Qi

University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUrbana, [e-mail]

Shiyu Chang

University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUrbana, [e-mail]

Min-Hsuan Tsai

University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUrbana, [e-mail]

Thomas S. Huang

University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUrbana, [e-mail]

14.1 Introduction

Clustering multimedia is a broad and interesting area of research that typically deals with clusters of different spaces (such as feature space and semantic space) and with different levels of granularity. As opposed to the conventional clustering approaches which deal with simple generation and assignment ...