Edit Distance From Graph Spectra

  • Authors:
  • A. Robles-Kelly;E. R. Hancock

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICCV '03 Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with computing graph edit distance. One ofthe criticisms that can be leveled at existing methods forcomputing graph edit distance is that it lacks the formality andrigour of the computation of string edit distance. Hence, our aimis to convert graphs to string sequences so that standard stringedit distance techniques can be used. To do this we use graphspectral seriation method to convert the adjacency matrix into astring or sequence order. We pose the problem of graph-matching asmaximum aposteriori probability alignment of the seriationsequences for pairs of graphs. This treatment leads to anexpression for the edit costs. We compute the edit distance byfinding the sequence of string edit operations which minimise thecost of the path traversing the edit lattice. The edit costs aredefined in terms of the a posteriori probability of visiting a siteon the lattice. We demonstrate the method with results on adata-set of Delaunay graphs.