Determining a suitable metric when using non-negative matrix factorization
- 25 June 2003
- proceedings article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Vol. 2, 128-131
- https://doi.org/10.1109/icpr.2002.1048254
Abstract
The Non-negative Matrix Factorization technique (NMF) has been recently proposed for dimensionality reduction. NMF is capable to produce a region- or part- based representation of objects and images. The positive space defined with NMF lacks of a suitable metric and this paper experimentally compares NMF to Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in the context of classification trying to determine the best distance metric for the NMF. This paper introduces the use of the Earth Mover's Dis- tance (EMD) as a relevant metric that takes into account the positive definition of the NMF bases leading to obtain the best recognition results when the dimensionality of the problem is correctly chosen. PCA and NMF have also been tested under the presence of occlusions and due to its part-based representation, NMF is able to deal with occlusions improving the PCA results.Keywords
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