A closed-form solution to the problem of averaging over the lie group of special orthogonal matrices

  • Authors:
  • Simone Fiori

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Ingegneria Biomedica, Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni (DiBET), Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ISNN'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Advances in Neural Networks - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Averaging over the Lie group SO(p) of special orthogonal matrices has several applications in the neural network field The problem of averaging over the group SO(3) has been studied in details and, in some specific cases, it admits a closed form solution Averaging over a generic-dimensional group SO(p) has also been studied recently, although the common formulation in terms of Riemannian mean leads to a matrix-type non-linear problem to solve, which, in general, may be tackled via iterative algorithms only In the present paper, we propose a novel formulation of the problem that gives rise to a closed form solution for the average SO(p)-matrix.