Object classification using local subspace projection

Jennifer Nealy; Robert Muise

doi:10.1117/12.881443

19 May 2011 Object classification using local subspace projection

Jennifer Nealy, Robert Muise

Proceedings Volume 8049, Automatic Target Recognition XXI; 804902 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.881443
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2011, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

We consider the problem of object classification from image data. Significant challenges are presented when objects can be imaged from different view angles and have different distortions. For example, a vehicle will appear completely different depending on the viewing angle of the sensor but must still be classified as the same vehicle. In regards to face recognition, a person may have a variety of facial expressions and a pattern recognition algorithm would need to account for these distortions. Traditional algorithms such as PCA filters are linear in nature and cannot account for the underlying non-linear structure which characterizes an object. We examine nonlinear manifold techniques applied to the pattern recognition problem. One mathematical construct receiving significant research attention is diffusion maps, whereby the underlying training data are remapped so that Euclidean distance in the mapped data is equivalent to the manifold distance of the original dataset. This technique has been used successfully for applications such as data organization, noise filtering, and anomaly detection with only limited experiments with object classification. For very large datasets (size N), pattern classification with diffusion maps becomes rather onerous as there is a requirement for the eigenvectors of an NxN matrix. We characterize the performance of a 40 person facial recognition problem with standard K-NN classifier, a diffusion distance classifier, and standard PCA. We then develop a local subspace projection algorithm which approximates the diffusion distance without the prohibitive computations and shows comparable classification performance.

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Jennifer Nealy and Robert Muise "Object classification using local subspace projection", Proc. SPIE 8049, Automatic Target Recognition XXI, 804902 (19 May 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.881443

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Diffusion

Principal component analysis

Image classification

Detection and tracking algorithms

Data modeling

Pattern recognition

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