ECE662: Statistical Pattern Recognition and Decision Making Processes

Spring 2008, Prof. Boutin

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# Lecture 17 Lecture notes

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Nearest Neighbor Classification Rule

• useful when there are several labels
• e.g. fingerprint-based recognition

Problem: Given the labeled training samples: $\vec{X_1}, \vec{X_2}, \ldots, \vec{X_d}$ $\in \mathbb{R}^n$ (or some other feature space) and an unlabeled test point $\vec{X_0}$ $\in \mathbb{R}^n$.

Classification: Let $\vec{X_i}$ be the closest training point to $\vec{X_0}$, then we assign the class of $\vec{X_i}$ to $\vec{X_0}$.

What do we mean by closest?

There are many meaning depending on the metric we choose for the feature space.

Definition A "metric" on a space S is a function

$D: S\times S\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$

that satisfies the following 4 properties:

• Non-negativity $D(\vec{x_1},\vec{x_2})\geq 0, \forall \vec{x_1},\vec{x_2}\in S$
• Symmetry $D(\vec{x_1},\vec{x_2})=D(\vec{x_2},\vec{x_1}), \forall \vec{x_1},\vec{x_2}\in S$
• Reflexivity $D(\vec{x},\vec{x})=0, \forall \vec{x}\in S$
• Triangle Inequality $D(\vec{x_1},\vec{x_2})+D(\vec{x_2},\vec{x_3})\geq D(\vec{x_1},\vec{x_3}) , \forall \vec{x_1}, \vec{x_2}, \vec{x_3}\in S$

Illustration of 3 different metrics

Examples of metrics

Euclidean distance: $D(\vec{x_1},\vec{x_2})=||\vec{x_1}-\vec{x_2}||_{L_2}=\sqrt{\sum_{i=1}^n ({x_1}^i-{x_2}^i)^2}$

Manhattan (cab driver) distance: $D(\vec{x_1},\vec{x_2})=||\vec{x_1}-\vec{x_2}||_{L_1}=\sum_{i=1}^n |{x_1}^i-{x_2}^i|$

Minkowski metric: $D(\vec{x_1},\vec{x_2})=||\vec{x_1}-\vec{x_2}||_{L_p}=(\sum_{i=1}^n ({x_1}^i-{x_2}^i)^p)^{\frac{1}{p}}$

Riemannian metric: $D(\vec{x_1},\vec{x_2})=\sqrt{(\vec{x_1}-\vec{x_2})^\top \mathbb{M}(\vec{x_1}-\vec{x_2})}$

Infinite norm: $D(\vec{x_1},\vec{x_2})=||\vec{x_1}-\vec{x_2}||_{\infty}=max_i |{x_1}^i-{x_2}^i|$

where M is a symmetric positive definite $n\times n$ matrix. Different choices for M enable associating different weights with different components.

In this way, we see that $\mathbb{R}^n$, $\mathbb{Z}^n$, $\mathbb{C}^n$ have many natural metrics, but feature could be in some other set, e.g. a discrete set.

for example,

$x_1$={fever, skinrash, high blodd pressure}

$x_2$={fever, neckstiffness}

Tanimoto metric

$D(set1, set2) = \frac {|set1|+|set2|-2|set1 \bigcap set2| }{|set1|+|set2|-|set1 \bigcap set2|}$

Example: previous approach to shape recognition Given is a set of ordered points in $R_n =(p_1,p_2,\cdots,p_N)$ We want to recognize the shape

Figure 1

Given template (triangle form): (T1,T2,...,TN); We want to assign one of test template to a test (P1,P2,P3) In this case, we should not use Euclidean distance!,

Figure 2

becasue shape defined by point is unchanged (invariant) by rotation and translation of triangles.

Therefore, distance between 2 triangles (or shapes) must be independent on the position and orientation of triangles.

Procrustes metric

$D(p,\bar p)= \sum_{\begin{matrix}i=1 \\ rotation R, translation T \end{matrix}}^n {\begin{Vmatrix} Rp_i+T-\bar p_i \end{Vmatrix}} _{L^2}$

$p=(p_1, p_2, \cdots ,p_N),\bar p = (\bar p_1, \bar p_2, \cdots ,\bar p_N)$

Alternative approach "Use invariant coordinate to repeat $p=(p_1, p_2, \cdots ,p_N)$ "

i.e find $\varphi$ such that

$\varphi : \mathbb{R}^n\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^k$ (where, typically $k \leq n$)

s.t $\varphi (x) = \varphi (\bar x)$

whenever $\exists$ R, T with $R \bar X + \bar T = X$

Example of phi with triangle (Figure 3):

(p1,p2,p3) -> (new p1, new p2, new p3)

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