Image Clustering Using a Similarity Measure

Incorporating Human Perception

Hamid Shojanazeri, Sunil Aryal, Shyh Wei Teng, Dengsheng Zhang, Guojun Lu

Abstract— Clustering similar images is an important task in image processing and computer vision. It requires a measure to
quantify pairwise similarities of images. The performance of clustering algorithm depends on the choice of similarity measure. In
this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of data-independent (distance-based), data-dependent (mass-based)and hybrid
(dis)similarity measures in the image clustering task using three benchmark image collections with different sets of features. Our
results of $K$ -Medoids clustering show that uses the hybrid Perceptual Dissimilarity Measure (PMD)produces better clustering
results than distance-based $ell_{p}$ - norm and mass-based $m_{p}$ - dissimilarity.

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