Abstract. In this paper, we present a new approach combining topological unsupervised learning with ontology based reasoning to achieve both : (i) automatic interpretation of clustering, and (ii) scaling ontology reasoning over large datasets. The interest of such approach holds on the use of expert knowledge to automate cluster labeling and gives them high level semantics that meets the user interest. The proposed approach is based on two steps. The first step performs a topographic unsupervised learning based on the SOM (Self-Organizing Maps) algorithm. The second step integrates expert knowledge in the map using ontology reasoning over the prototypes and provides an automatic interpretation of the clusters. We apply our approach to the real problem of satellite image classification. The experiments highlight the capacity of our approach to obtain a semantically labeled topographic map and the obtained results show very promising performances.
Recent studies have shown that the use of a priori knowledge can significantly improve the results of unsupervised classification. However, capturing and formatting such knowledge as constraints is not only very expensive requiring the sustained involvement of an expert but it is also very difficult because some valuable information can be lost when it cannot be encoded as constraints. In this paper, we propose a new constraintbased clustering approach based on ontology reasoning for automatically generating constraints and bridging the semantic gap in satellite image labeling. The use of ontology as a priori knowledge has many advantages that we leverage in the context of satellite image interpretation. The experiments we conduct have shown that our proposed approach can deal with incomplete knowledge while completely exploiting the available one.
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