Fisher-like Kernels Using Fuzzy c-Means

Accession number;06A0843646
Title;Fisher-like Kernels Using Fuzzy c-Means
Author;INOKUCHI RYO(Univ. Tsukuba, Graduate School of System and Information Engineering, JPN)   MIYAMOTO SADAAKI(Univ. Tsukuba, Graduate School of System and Information Engineering, JPN)   
Journal Title;Faji Shisutemu Shinpojiumu Koen Ronbunshu (CD-ROM)
Journal Code:L0486B
ISSN:1341-9080
VOL.22nd;NO.;PAGE.6C4-4(2006)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.4, REF.11
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;Japanese
Abstract;The Fisher kernel, which refers to the inner product in the feature space of the Fisher score, has been known to be a successful tool for feature extraction using a probabilistic model. If an appropriate probabilistic model for given data is known, the Fisher kernel provides a discriminative classifier with good generalization. However, if the distribution is unknown, it is difficult to obtain an appropriate Fisher kernel. In this paper, we propose a new nonparametric Fisher-like kernel derived from fuzzy clustering instead of a probabilistic model, noting that fuzzy clustering methods such as a family of fuzzy c-means are highly related to probabilistic models. Numerical examples show the effectiveness of the proposed method. (author abst.)