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Partitioning of Image Datasets using Discriminative Context Information

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Lampert,  CH
Department Empirical Inference, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

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Lampert, C. (2008). Partitioning of Image Datasets using Discriminative Context Information. In 2008 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (pp. 1-8). Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-C905-F
Abstract
We propose a new method to partition an unlabeled dataset, called Discriminative Context Partitioning (DCP). It is motivated by the idea of splitting the dataset based only on how well the resulting parts can be separated from a context class of disjoint data points. This is in contrast to typical clustering techniques like K-means that are based on a generative model by implicitly or explicitly searching for modes in the distribution of samples.
The discriminative criterion in DCP avoids the problems that density based methods have when the a priori assumption of multimodality is violated, when the number of samples becomes small in relation to the dimensionality of the feature space, or if the cluster sizes are strongly unbalanced. We formulate DCPamp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lsquo;s separation property as a large-margin criterion, and show how the resulting optimization problem can be solved efficiently. Experiments on the MNIST and USPS datasets of handwritten digits and on a subset of the Caltech256 dataset show that, given a suitable context, DCP can achieve good results even in situation where density-based clustering techniques fail.