Abstract. Mutual information (MI) is a common criterion in independent component analysis (ICA) optimization. MI is derived from probability density functions (PDF). There are scen...
Sarit Shwartz, Michael Zibulevsky, Yoav Y. Schechn...
This article arguments that rank correlation coefficients are powerful association measures and how can they be adopted by EDAs. A new EDA implements the proposed ideas: the Non-P...
This paper presents a nonparametric discriminant HMM
and applies it to facial expression recognition. In the proposed
HMM, we introduce an effective nonparametric output
probabi...
Lifeng Shang (The University of Hong Kong), Kwok-P...
In this paper, we present a novel information theoretic approach to image segmentation. We cast the segmentation problem as the maximization of the mutual information between the ...
Alan S. Willsky, Anthony J. Yezzi Jr., John W. Fis...
Mixture models have been widely used for data clustering. However, commonly used mixture models are generally of a parametric form (e.g., mixture of Gaussian distributions or GMM),...