Fuzzy feature weighting techniques for vector quantisation

Vector quantization (VQ) is a simple but effective modelling technique in pattern recognition. VQ employs a clustering technique to convert a feature vector set in to a cluster center set to model the feature vector set. Some clustering techniques have been applied to improve VQ. However VQ is not always effective because data features are treated equally although their importance may not be the same. Some automated feature weighting techniques have been proposed to overcome this drawback. This paper reviews those weighting techniques and proposes a general scheme for selecting any pair of clustering and feature weighting techniques to form a fuzzy feature weighting-based VQ modelling technique. Besides the current techniques, a number of new feature weighting-based VQ techniques is proposed and their evaluations are also presented.

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