Earth Mover's Distance based Local Discriminant Basis (with B. Marchand), in Multiscale Signal Analysis and Modeling (X. Shen and A. I. Zayed, eds.), Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Chap. 12, pp. 275-294, Springer, 2013.

Abstract

Local discriminant Basis (LDB) is a tool to extract useful features for signal and image classification problems. Original LDB methods rely on the time-frequency energy distribution of classes or empirical probability densities, with some information theoretic measure (such as Kullback-Leibler divergence) for feature selection. Depending on the problem, energy distributions may not provide the best information for classification. Further, training set sizes and accuracy in the computed empirical probability density functions (epdfs) may hinder the learning process . To improve these deficiencies and provide a more data adaptive algorithm, we propose the use of signatures and Earth Mover's Distance (EMD). Signatures and EMD provide a data adaptive statistic that is more descriptive than the distribution of energies and more robust than an epdf-based approach. In this article, we first review LDB and EMD, and then outline how they can be incorporated into a fast EMD based LDB algorithm. We then demonstrate the capabilities of our new algorithm in comparison to both energy distribution and epdf-based LDB algorithms using four different classification problems using synthetic datasets.

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