APPARATUS AND METHOD OF IMAGE CLUSTERING

An apparatus includes a modified image generator generating modified images by modifying each unlabeled image, a pre-trainer to generate a feature vector for each modified image by using an artificial neural network-based encoder and train the encoder based on the feature vector for each modified image, a pseudo-label generator to generate a feature vector for each unlabeled training image, cluster the training images based on the feature vector for each training image, and generate a pseudo-label for at least one training image among the training images based on the clustering result, and a further trainer to generate a predicted label by using the trained encoder and a classification model including a classifier to generate a predicted label for an image input to the trained encoder based on a feature vector, and train the classification model based on the pseudo-label and predicted label for the at least one training image.