Hey Jeff-

Sorry I've been so quiet on this stuff lately -- I've been traveling for job
interviews. I haven't had a chance to look through your code thoroughly, but
I'm hoping to get to it by the weekend. Will get back to you soon...

Matt

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Jeff Eastman (JIRA) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

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> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-15?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel]
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> Jeff Eastman updated MAHOUT-15:
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>     Attachment: MAHOUT-15b.patch
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> I noticed that the mergeCanopy method was only adding the new canopy
> center to the existing canopies, but not adding the existing canopy centers
> to itself. This produced an assymetry defect that, I think, also exists in
> canopy clustering and kmeans. Correcting this problem leads the algorithm to
> now converge exactly upon the input image after 40-odd iterations:
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> > Investigate Mean Shift Clustering
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> >
> >                 Key: MAHOUT-15
> >                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-15
> >             Project: Mahout
> >          Issue Type: New Feature
> >          Components: Clustering
> >            Reporter: Jeff Eastman
> >            Assignee: Jeff Eastman
> >         Attachments: MAHOUT-15a.patch, MAHOUT-15b.patch
> >
> >
> > "The mean shift algorithm is a nonparametric clustering technique which
> does not require prior knowledge of the number of clusters, and does not
> constrain the shape of the clusters."
> http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/CVonline/LOCAL_COPIES/TUZEL1/MeanShift.pdf
> > Investigate implementing mean shift clustering using Hadoop
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