New Developments in Unsupervised Outlier Detection

Overview and Contributions.- Developments in Unsupervised Outlier Detection Research.- A Fast Distance-Based Outlier Detection Technique Using A Divisive Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm.- A k-Nearest Neighbour Centroid Based Outlier Detection Method.- A Minimum Spanning Tree Clustering Inspired Outlier Detection Technique.- A k-Nearest Neighbour Spectral Clustering Based Outlier Detection Technique.- Enhancing Outlier Detection by Filtering Out Core Points and Border Points.- An Effective Boundary Point Detection Algorithm via k-Nearest Neighbours Based Centroid.- A Nearest Neighbour Classifier Based Automated On-Line Novel Visual Percept Detection Method.- Unsupervised Fraud Detection in Environmental Time Series Data. 

Xiaochun Wang received her B.S. degree from Beijing University and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, the United States of America. She is currently an Associate Professor of the School of Software Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University. Her research interests are in computer vision, signal processing, data mining, machine learning and pattern recognition.
Xia Li Wang received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science, Northwest University, People's Republic of China, in 2005. He is a faculty member in the School of Information Engineering, Chang'an University, China. His research interests are in computer vision, signal processing, intelligent traffic system, and pattern recognition.
D. Mitchell Wilkes received the B.S.E.E. degree from Florida Atlantic, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology. His researchinterests include digital signal processing, image processing and computer vision, structurally adaptive systems, sonar, as well as signal modeling. He is a member of the IEEE and a faculty member at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University. He is a member of the IEEE.