The nature of statistical learning theory
The nature of statistical learning theory
Exploiting generative models in discriminative classifiers
Proceedings of the 1998 conference on Advances in neural information processing systems II
Pattern Recognition with Fuzzy Objective Function Algorithms
Pattern Recognition with Fuzzy Objective Function Algorithms
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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 such as support vector machines 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, e.g., entropy-based fuzzy c-means and a Gaussian mixture distribution model. The proposed kernel is derived from observing the last relationship. Numerical examples show the effectiveness of the proposed method.