Semi-supervised locally discriminant projection for classification and recognition

  • Authors:
  • Shanwen Zhang;Ying-Ke Lei;Yan-Hua Wu

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 1130, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China;Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 1130, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China and Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui ...;Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China and Electronic Engineering Institute, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China

  • Venue:
  • Knowledge-Based Systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Semi-supervised dimensional reduction methods play an important role in pattern recognition, which are likely to be more suitable for plant leaf and palmprint classification, since labeling plant leaf and palmprint often requires expensive human labor, whereas unlabeled plant leaf and palmprint is far easier to obtain at very low cost. In this paper, we attempt to utilize the unlabeled data to aid plant leaf and palmprint classification task with the limited number of the labeled plant leaf or palmprint data, and propose a semi-supervised locally discriminant projection (SSLDP) algorithm for plant leaf and palmprint classification. By making use of both labeled and unlabeled data in learning a transformation for dimensionality reduction, the proposed method can overcome the small-sample-size (SSS) problem under the situation where labeled data are scant. In SSLDP, the labeled data points, combined with the unlabeled data ones, are used to construct the within-class and between-class weight matrices incorporating the neighborhood information of the data set. The experiments on plant leaf and palmprint databases demonstrate that SSLDP is effective and feasible for plant leaf and palmprint classification.