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PAMI
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Gaussian Mean-Shift Is an EM Algorithm
The mean-shift algorithm, based on ideas proposed by Fukunaga and Hostetler (1975), is a hill-climbing algorithm on the density defined by a finite mixture or a kernel density e...
Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán
BMEI
2009
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
A Kurtosis and Skewness Based Criterion for Model Selection on Gaussian Mixture
The Gaussian mixture model is a powerful statistical tool in data modeling and analysis. Generally, the EM algorithm is utilized to learn the parameters of the Gaussian mixture. Ho...
Lin Wang, Jinwen Ma
NECO
2000
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13 years 4 months ago
Practical Identifiability of Finite Mixtures of Multivariate Bernoulli Distributions
The class of finite mixtures of multivariate Bernoulli distributions is known to be nonidentifiable, i.e., different values of the mixture parameters can correspond to exactly the...
Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán, ...
PCI
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Gossip-Based Greedy Gaussian Mixture Learning
Abstract. It has been recently demonstrated that the classical EM algorithm for learning Gaussian mixture models can be successfully implemented in a decentralized manner by resort...
Nikos A. Vlassis, Yiannis Sfakianakis, Wojtek Kowa...
NN
1998
Springer
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Soft vector quantization and the EM algorithm
The relation between hard c-means (HCM), fuzzy c-means (FCM), fuzzy learning vector quantization (FLVQ), soft competition scheme (SCS) of Yair et al. (1992) and probabilistic Gaus...
Ethem Alpaydin