A Centroid Auto-Fused Hierarchical Fuzzy c-Means Clustering

Like k-means and Gaussian mixture model (GMM), fuzzy c-means (FCM) with soft partition has also become a popular clustering algorithm and still is extensively studied. However, these algorithms and their variants still suffer from some difficulties such as determination of the optimal number of clusters which is a key factor for clustering quality. A common approach for overcoming this difficulty ...