Subspace manifold learning with sample weights

Subspace manifold learning represents a popular class of techniques in statistical image analysis and object recognition. Recent research in the field has focused on nonlinear representations; locally linear embedding (LLE) is one such technique that has recently gained popularity. We present and apply a generalization of LLE that introduces sample weights. We demonstrate the application of the technique to face recognition, where a model exists to describe each face’s probability of occurrence. These probabilities are used as weights in the learning of the low-dimensional face manifold. Results of face recognition using this approach are compared against standard nonweighted LLE and PCA. A significant improvement in recognition rates is realized using weighted LLE on a data set where face occurrences follow the modeled distribution.     

Phoneme recognition using an adaptive supervised manifold learning algorithm

To effectively handle speech data lying on a nonlinear manifold embedded in a high-dimensional acoustic space, in this paper, an adaptive supervised manifold learning algorithm based on locally linear embedding (LLE) for nonlinear dimensionality reduction is proposed to extract the low-dimensional embedded data representations for phoneme recognition. The proposed method aims to make the interclass dissimilarity maximized, while the intraclass dissimilarity minimized in order to promote the discriminating power and generalization ability of the low-dimensional embedded data representations. The performance of the proposed method is compared with five well-known dimensionality reduction methods, i.e., principal component analysis, linear discriminant analysis, isometric mapping (Isomap), LLE as well as the original supervised LLE. Experimental results on three benchmarking speech databases, i.e., the Deterding database, the DARPA TIMIT database, and the ISOLET E-set database, demonstrate that the proposed method obtains promising performance on the phoneme recognition task, outperforming the other used methods.     

Dimensionality reduction-based spoken emotion recognition

To improve effectively the performance on spoken emotion recognition, it is needed to perform nonlinear dimensionality reduction for speech data lying on a nonlinear manifold embedded in a high-dimensional acoustic space. In this paper, a new supervised manifold learning algorithm for nonlinear dimensionality reduction, called modified supervised locally linear embedding algorithm (MSLLE) is proposed for spoken emotion recognition. MSLLE aims at enlarging the interclass distance while shrinking the intraclass distance in an effort to promote the discriminating power and generalization ability of low-dimensional embedded data representations. To compare the performance of MSLLE, not only three unsupervised dimensionality reduction methods, i.e., principal component analysis (PCA), locally linear embedding (LLE) and isometric mapping (Isomap), but also five supervised dimensionality reduction methods, i.e., linear discriminant analysis (LDA), supervised locally linear embedding (SLLE), local Fisher discriminant analysis (LFDA), neighborhood component analysis (NCA) and maximally collapsing metric learning (MCML), are used to perform dimensionality reduction on spoken emotion recognition tasks. Experimental results on two emotional speech databases, i.e. the spontaneous Chinese database and the acted Berlin database, confirm the validity and promising performance of the proposed method.     

Regression reformulations of LLE and LTSA with locally linear transformation

Locally linear embedding (LLE) and local tangent space alignment (LTSA) are two fundamental algorithms in manifold learning. Both LLE and LTSA employ linear methods to achieve their goals but with different motivations and formulations. LLE is developed by locally linear reconstructions in both high- and low-dimensional spaces, while LTSA is developed with the combinations of tangent space projections and locally linear alignments. This paper gives the regression reformulations of the LLE and LTSA algorithms in terms of locally linear transformations. The reformulations can help us to bridge them together, with which both of them can be addressed into a unified framework. Under this framework, the connections and differences between LLE and LTSA are explained. Illuminated by the connections and differences, an improved LLE algorithm is presented in this paper. Our algorithm learns the manifold in way of LLE but can significantly improve the performance. Experiments are conducted to illustrate this fact.     

基于局部线性嵌入算法的汉语数字语音识别

语音信号转换到频域后维数较高,流行学习方法可以自主发现高维数据中潜在低维结构的规律性,提出采用流形学习的方法对高维数据降维来进行汉语数字语音识别。采用流形学习中的局部线性嵌入算法提取语音频域上高维数据的低维流形结构特征,再将低维数据输入动态时间规整识别器进行识别。仿真实验结果表明,采用局部线性嵌入算法的汉语数字语音识别相较于常用声学特征MFCC维数要少,识别率提高了1.2%,有效提高了识别速度。     

一种改进的局部线性嵌入算法

局部线性嵌入算法(Local Linear Embedding,简称LLE)是一种非线性流形学习算法,能有效地学习出高维采样数据的低维嵌入坐标,但也存在一些不足,如不能处理稀疏的样本数据.针对这些缺点,提出了一种基于局部映射的线性嵌入算法(Local Project Linear Embedding,简称LPLE).通过假定目标空间的整体嵌入函数,重新构造样本点的局部邻域特征向量,最后将问题归结为损失矩阵的特征向量问题从而构造出目标空间的全局坐标.LPLE算法解决了传统LLE算法在源数据稀疏情况下的不能有效进行降维的问题,这也是其他传统的流形学习算法没有解决的.通过实验说明了LPLE算法研究的有效性和意义.     

基于随机游走扩散映射的降维算法

传统数据降维算法分为线性或流形学习降维算法,但在实际应用中很难确定需要哪一类算法.设计一种综合的数据降维算法,以保证它的线性降维效果下限为主成分分析方法且在流形学习降维方面能揭示流形的数据结构.通过对高维数据构造马尔可夫转移矩阵,使越相似的节点转移概率越大,从而发现高维数据降维到低维流形的映射关系.实验结果表明,在人造...     

基于直接估计梯度思想的数据降维算法

高维非线性数据的降维处理对于计算机完成高复杂度的数据源分析是非常重要的。从拓扑学角度分析,维数约简的过程是挖掘嵌入在高维数据中的低维线性或非线性的流形。该文在局部嵌入思想的流形学习算法的基础上,提出直接估计梯度值的方法,从而达到局部线性误差逼近最小化,实现高维非线性数据的维数约简,并在Swiss roll曲线上采样测试取得了良好的降维效果。     

1D representation of locally linear embedding for image prediction

Multimedia Tools and Applications - Image prediction is a very important step in image and video coding. LLE (locally linear embedding) is a famous algorithm of NLDR (nonlinear dimensionality...     

一种基于局部流形结构的无监督特征学习方法(英文)

Unsupervised feature selection is fundamental in statistical pattern recognition, and has drawn persistent attention in the past several decades. Recently, much work has shown that feature selection can be formulated as nonlinear dimensionality reduction with discrete constraints. This line of research emphasizes utilizing the manifold learning techniques, where feature selection and learning can be studied based on the manifold assumption in data distribution. Many existing feature selection methods such as Laplacian score, SPEC(spectrum decomposition of graph Laplacian), TR(trace ratio) criterion, MSFS(multi-cluster feature selection) and EVSC(eigenvalue sensitive criterion) apply the basic properties of graph Laplacian, and select the optimal feature subsets which best preserve the manifold structure defined on the graph Laplacian. In this paper, we propose a new feature selection perspective from locally linear embedding(LLE), which is another popular manifold learning method. The main difficulty of using LLE for feature selection is that its optimization involves quadratic programming and eigenvalue decomposition, both of which are continuous procedures and different from discrete feature selection. We prove that the LLE objective can be decomposed with respect to data dimensionalities in the subset selection problem, which also facilitates constructing better coordinates from data using the principal component analysis(PCA) technique. Based on these results, we propose a novel unsupervised feature selection algorithm,called locally linear selection(LLS), to select a feature subset representing the underlying data manifold. The local relationship among samples is computed from the LLE formulation, which is then used to estimate the contribution of each individual feature to the underlying manifold structure. These contributions, represented as LLS scores, are ranked and selected as the candidate solution to feature selection. We further develop a locally linear rotation-selection(LLRS) algorithm which extends LLS to identify the optimal coordinate subset from a new space. Experimental results on real-world datasets show that our method can be more effective than Laplacian eigenmap based feature selection methods.     

Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Locally Linear Inlaying

High-dimensional data is involved in many fields of information processing. However, sometimes, the intrinsic structures of these data can be described by a few degrees of freedom. To discover these degrees of freedom or the low-dimensional nonlinear manifold underlying a high-dimensional space, many manifold learning algorithms have been proposed. Here we describe a novel algorithm, locally linear inlaying (LLI), which combines simple geometric intuitions and rigorously established optimality to compute the global embedding of a nonlinear manifold. Using a divide-and-conquer strategy, LLI gains some advantages in itself. First, its time complexity is linear in the number of data points, and hence LLI can be implemented efficiently. Second, LLI overcomes problems caused by the nonuniform sample distribution. Third, unlike existing algorithms such as isometric feature mapping (Isomap), local tangent space alignment (LTSA), and locally linear coordination (LLC), LLI is robust to noise. In addition, to evaluate the embedding results quantitatively, two criteria based on information theory and Kolmogorov complexity theory, respectively, are proposed. Furthermore, we demonstrated the efficiency and effectiveness of our proposal by synthetic and real-world data sets.      

一种改进的局部线性嵌套方法

局部线性嵌套LLE(locally linear embedding)是一种经典的流形学习方法.对于从单个流形上采样得到的数据集,它能够有效地学习其内在低维结构,然而当数据集是从多个流形上采样得到时,U正的效果并不理想.提出了一种基于距离度量学习的改进方法:Metric LLE,它利用部分数据点的相似信息来学习距离度量.实验结果表明Metric LLE在应用中有很好的性能:分类能力比LLE好;在可视化方面,效果比Supervised LLE好.     

Manifold-Based Learning and Synthesis

This paper proposes a new approach to analyze high-dimensional data set using low-dimensional manifold. This manifold-based approach provides a unified formulation for both learning from and synthesis back to the input space. The manifold learning method desires to solve two problems in many existing algorithms. The first problem is the local manifold distortion caused by the cost averaging of the global cost optimization during the manifold learning. The second problem results from the unit variance constraint generally used in those spectral embedding methods where global metric information is lost. For the out-of-sample data points, the proposed approach gives simple solutions to transverse between the input space and the feature space. In addition, this method can be used to estimate the underlying dimension and is robust to the number of neighbors. Experiments on both low-dimensional data and real image data are performed to illustrate the theory.     

A comparative study of nonlinear manifold learning methods for cancer microarray data classification

The paper presents an empirical comparison of the most prominent nonlinear manifold learning techniques for dimensionality reduction in the context of high-dimensional microarray data classification. In particular, we assessed the performance of six methods: isometric feature mapping, locally linear embedding, Laplacian eigenmaps, Hessian eigenmaps, local tangent space alignment and maximum variance unfolding. Unlike previous studies on the subject, the experimental framework adopted in this work properly extends to dimensionality reduction the supervised learning paradigm, by regarding the test set as an out-of-sample set of new points which are excluded from the manifold learning process. This in order to avoid a possible overestimate of the classification accuracy which may yield misleading comparative results. The different empirical approach requires the use of a fast and effective out-of-sample embedding method for mapping new high-dimensional data points into an existing reduced space. To this aim we propose to apply multi-output kernel ridge regression, an extension of linear ridge regression based on kernel functions which has been recently presented as a powerful method for out-of-sample projection when combined with a variant of isometric feature mapping. Computational experiments on a wide collection of cancer microarray data sets show that classifiers based on Isomap, LLE and LE were consistently more accurate than those relying on HE, LTSA and MVU. In particular, under different experimental conditions LLE-based classifier emerged as the most effective method whereas Isomap algorithm turned out to be the second best alternative for dimensionality reduction.     

几种流形学习算法的比较研究

如何发现高维数据空间流形中有意义的低维嵌入信息是流形学习的主要目的。目前,大部分流形学习算法都是用于非线性维数约简或是数据可视化的,如等距映射（Isomap）,局部线性嵌入算法（LLE）,拉普拉斯特征映射算（laplacian Eigenmap）等等,文章对这三种流形学习算法进行实验分析与比较,目的在于了解这几种流形学习算法的特点,以便更好地进行数据的降维与分析。     

Robust deformable shape reconstruction from monocular video with manifold forests

Existing approaches to recover structure of 3D deformable objects and camera motion parameters from an uncalibrated images assume the object’s shape could be modelled well by a linear subspace. These methods have been proven effective and well suited when the deformations are relatively small, but fail to reconstruct the objects with relatively large deformations. This paper describes a novel approach for 3D non-rigid shape reconstruction, based on manifold decision forest technique. The use of this technique can be justified by noting that a specific type of shape variations might be governed by only a small number of parameters, and therefore can be well represented in a low-dimensional manifold. The key contributions of this work are the use of random decision forests for the shape manifold learning and robust metric for calculation of the re-projection error. The learned manifold defines constraints imposed on the reconstructed shapes. Due to a nonlinear structure of the learned manifold, this approach is more suitable to deal with large and complex object deformations when compared to the linear constraints. The robust metric is applied to reduce the effect of measurement outliers on the quality of the reconstruction. In many practical applications outliers cannot be completely removed and therefore the use of robust techniques is of particular practical interest. The proposed method is validated on 2D points sequences projected from the 3D motion capture data for ground truth comparison and also on real 2D video sequences. Experiments show that the newly proposed method provides better performance compared to previously proposed ones, including the robustness with respect to measurement noise, missing measurements and outliers present in the data.     

改进的有监督的局部线性嵌入算法及实验演示

流形学习方法中的LLE算法可以将高维数据在保持局部邻域结构的条件下降维到低维流形子空间中．并得到与原样本集具有相似局部结构的嵌入向量集合。LLE算法在数据降维处理过程中没有考虑样本的分类信息。针对这些问题进行研究,提出改进的有监督的局部线性嵌人算法（MSLLE）,并利用MatLab对该改进算法的实现效果同LLE进行实验演示比较。通过实验演示表明,MSLLE算法较LLE算法可以有利于保持数据点本身内部结构。     

基于鲁棒的全局流形学习方法

非线性降维在数据挖掘、机器学习、图像分析和计算机视觉等领域应用广泛。等距映射算法(Isomap)是一种全局流形学习方法,能有效地学习等距流形的“低维嵌入”,但它对数据中的离群样本点缺乏鲁棒性。针对这种情况,该文提出一种离群点检测方法,基于Isomap的基本思想,给出一种鲁棒的全局流形学习方法,提高Isomap处理离群样本点的能力。数值实验表明了该方法的有效性。     

Reconstruction and analysis of multi-pose face images based on nonlinear dimensionality reduction

Locally linear embedding (LLE) is a nonlinear dimensionality reduction method proposed recently. It can reveal the intrinsic distribution of data, which cannot be provided by classical linear dimensionality reduction methods. The application of LLE, however, is limited because of its lack of a parametric mapping between the observation and the low-dimensional output. And the large data set to be reduced is necessary. In this paper, we propose methods to establish the process of mapping from low-dimensional embedded space to high-dimensional space for LLE and validate their efficiency with the application of reconstruction of multi-pose face images. Furthermore, we propose that the high-dimensional structure of multi-pose face images is similar for the same kind of pose change mode of different persons. So given the structure information of data distribution which is obtained by leaning large numbers of multi-pose images in a training set, the support vector regression (SVR) method of statistical learning theory is used to learn the high-dimensional structure of someone based on small sets. The detailed learning method and algorithm are given and applied to reconstruct and synthesize face images in small set cases. The experiments prove that our idea and method is correct.