In this paper, we present a novel approach to solving the supervised dimensionality reduction problem by encoding an image object as a general tensor of 2nd or higher order. First, we propose a discriminant tensor criterion (DTC), whereby multiple interrelated lower-dimensional discriminative subspaces are derived for feature selection. Then, a novel approach called k-mode cluster-based discriminant analysis is presented to iteratively learn these subspaces by unfolding the tensor along different tensor dimensions. We call this algorithm discriminant analysis with tensor representation (DATER), which has the following characteristics: 1) multiple interrelated subspaces can collaborate to discriminate different classes; 2) for classification problems involving higher-order tensors, the DATER algorithm can avoid the curse of dimensionality dilemma and overcome the small sample size problem; and 3) the computational cost in the learning stage is reduced to a large extent owing to the reduced data dimensions in generalized eigenvalue decomposition. We provide extensive experiments by encoding face images as 2nd or 3rd order tensors to demonstrate that the proposed DATER algorithm based on higher order tensors has the potential to outperform the traditional subspace learning algorithms, especially in the small sample size cases.
Discriminant analysis with tensor representation
2005-01-01
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Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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