Simultaneous non-gaussian data clustering, feature selection and outliers rejection

  • Authors:
  • Nizar Bouguila;Djemel Ziou;Sabri Boutemedjet

  • Affiliations:
  • Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Qc;Département d'Informatique, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada, Qc,;Département d'Informatique, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada, Qc,

  • Venue:
  • PReMI'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Pattern recognition and machine intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2011

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

A method for simultaneous non-Gaussian data clustering, feature selection and outliers rejection is proposed in this paper. The proposed approach is based on finite generalized Dirichlet mixture models learned within a framework including expectation-maximization updates for model parameters estimation and minimum message length criterion for model selection. Through a challenging application involving texture images discrimination, it is demonstrated that the developed procedure performs effectively in avoiding outliers and selecting relevant features.