Methoden vergelijken

	Mean Shift	DBSCAN	Hiërarchische clustering
Vakgebied	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning
Familie	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning
Jaar van ontstaan	1975	1996	1963
Grondlegger	Fukunaga, K. & Hostetler, L. D.; extended by Comaniciu, D. & Meer, P.	Ester, M., Kriegel, H.-P., Sander, J. & Xu, X.	Ward, J. H.
Type	Non-parametric mode-seeking / density-based clustering	Density-based clustering algorithm	Unsupervised clustering (agglomerative)
Oorspronkelijke bron	Fukunaga, K. & Hostetler, L. D. (1975). The estimation of the gradient of a density function, with applications in pattern recognition. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 21(1), 32–40.	Ester, M., Kriegel, H.-P., Sander, J. & Xu, X. (1996). A Density-Based Algorithm for Discovering Clusters in Large Spatial Databases with Noise. Proceedings of the 2nd KDD, 226–231.	Ward, J. H. (1963). Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 58(301), 236–244.
Aliassen	mean-shift clustering, mean shift mode seeking, kernel mean shift, nonparametric mode detection	DBSCAN Kümeleme, density-based clustering, density-based spatial clustering	Hiyerarşik Kümeleme, hiyerarşik kümeleme, agglomerative clustering, hierarchical agglomerative clustering
Verwant	4	3	4
Samenvatting	Mean Shift is a non-parametric, iterative mode-seeking algorithm that identifies clusters as the peaks of an underlying probability density function. Originally introduced by Fukunaga and Hostetler (1975) for gradient estimation in pattern recognition, it was substantially extended and popularized by Comaniciu and Meer (2002) for robust feature-space analysis and image segmentation. Unlike k-means, Mean Shift requires no prior specification of the number of clusters, deriving cluster structure entirely from the data density.	DBSCAN is a density-based clustering algorithm, introduced by Ester, Kriegel, Sander and Xu in 1996, that groups together points lying in dense regions and flags points in sparse regions as noise. It is effective on noisy data and on clusters of irregular, non-spherical shapes.	Hierarchical clustering is an unsupervised method that groups observations into nested clusters and draws the result as a dendrogram, so the number of clusters need not be fixed in advance. Its agglomerative form rests on the objective-function grouping criterion introduced by Joe Ward in 1963.