Lateral enhancement in adaptive metric learning for functional data

  • Authors:
  • T. Villmann;M. Kaden;D. Nebel;M. Riedel

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Neurocomputing
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

The amount of available functional data like time series and hyper-spectra in remote sensing is rapidly growing and requires an efficient processing taking into account the knowledge about this special data characteristic. Usually these data are high-dimensional but with inherent correlations between neighbored vector dimensions reflecting the functional characteristics. Especially, for such high dimensional data, metric adaptation is an important tool in several learning methods for data discrimination and sparse representation. An important group of metric learning are relevance and matrix learning in vector quantization. Functional variants of relevance and matrix learning are considered in this paper. For an efficient learning of these functional relevance and matrix weights, we propose the utilization of spatial neighborhood correlations regarding the vector dimensions. We show that this efficient enhancement scheme can be seen as a new dissimilarity measure in standard generalized learning vector quantization, emphasizing the functional data aspect, such that theoretical aspects like margin analysis remain valid.