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Martin Ester

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Martin Ester, born on 5 November 1958, is a Canadian-German professor of computing science at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. His research focuses on data mining and machine learning. Together with Hans-Peter Kriegel, Jörg Sander and Xiaowei Xu he proposed in 1996 the DBSCAN algorithm, whose name stands for density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise and which has become a widely used method for data clustering.

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  • Credited: DBSCAN Algorithm, Lead section
    proposed by Martin Ester, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Jörg Sander, and Xiaowei Xu in 1996
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    proposed by Martin Ester, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Jörg Sander, and Xiaowei Xu in 1996
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