%0 Journal Article %T Uma alternativa de acelera£¿£¿o do algoritmo fuzzy K-Means aplicado ¨¤ quantiza£¿£¿o vetorial %A Madeiro %A F. %A Galv£¿o %A R.R.A. %A Ferreira %A F.A.B.S. %A Cunha %A D.C. %J TEMA (S£¿o Carlos) %D 2012 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.5540/tema.2012.013.02.0193 %X signal compression, digital watermarking and pattern recognition are examples of applications of vector quantization (vq). a relevant problem concerning vq is codebook design. in this paper, an alternative is presented for accelerating the fuzzy k-it means algorithm applied to codebook design. simulation results involving vq of images and gauss-markov signals show that the proposed method leads to an increase of convergence speed (reduction of the number of iterations) of the fuzzy k-it means algorithm without sacrificing the quality of the designed codebooks. %K vector quantization %K fuzzy k-means %K image coding. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S2179-84512012000200009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en