International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 88 - Number 17 |
Year of Publication: 2014 |
Authors: Cristian Jose´ Lo´pez Del A´ Lamo, Lizeth Joseline Fuentes P´erez, Luciano Arnaldo Romero Calla |
10.5120/15441-4051 |
Cristian Jose´ Lo´pez Del A´ Lamo, Lizeth Joseline Fuentes P´erez, Luciano Arnaldo Romero Calla . Parallelization of the Algorithm K-means Applied in Image Segmentation. International Journal of Computer Applications. 88, 17 ( February 2014), 1-4. DOI=10.5120/15441-4051
Algorithm k-means is useful for grouping operations; however, when is applied to large amounts of data, its computational cost is high. This research propose an optimization of k-means algorithm by using parallelization techniques and synchronization, which is applied to image segmentation. In the results obtained, the parallel k-means algorithm, improvement 50% to the algorithm sequential k-means.