Feature extraction via generalized uncorrelated linear discriminant analysis

Jieping Ye, Ravi Janardan, Qi Li, Haesun Park

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Abstract

Feature extraction is important in many applications, such as text and image retrieval, because of high dimensionality. Uncorrelated Linear Discriminant Analysis (ULDA) was recently proposed for feature extraction. The extracted features via ULDA were shown to be statistically uncorrelated, which is desirable for many applications. In this paper, we will first propose the ULDA/QR algorithm to simplify the previous implementation of ULDA. Then we propose the ULDA/GSVD algorithm, based on a novel optimization criterion, to address the singularity problem. It is applicable for undersampled problem, where the data dimension is much larger than the data size, such as text and image retrieval. The novel criterion used in ULDA/GSVD is the perturbed version of the one from ULDA/QR, while surprisingly, the solution to ULDA/GSVD is shown to be independent of the amount of perturbation applied. We did extensive experiments on text and face image data to show the effectiveness of ULDA/GSVD and compare with other popular feature extraction algorithms.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings, Twenty-First International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2004
EditorsR. Greiner, D. Schuurmans
Pages895-902
Number of pages8
StatePublished - 2004
EventProceedings, Twenty-First International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2004 - Banff, Alta, Canada
Duration: Jul 4 2004Jul 8 2004

Publication series

NameProceedings, Twenty-First International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2004

Other

OtherProceedings, Twenty-First International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2004
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityBanff, Alta
Period7/4/047/8/04

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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