Random walk distances in data clustering and applications

In this paper, we develop a family of data clustering algorithms that combine the strengths of existing spectral approaches to clustering with various desirable properties of fuzzy methods. In particular, we show that the developed method “Fuzzy-RW,” outperforms other frequently used algorithms in data sets with different geometries. As applications, we discuss data clustering of biological and face recognition benchmarks such as the IRIS and YALE face data sets. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013