It is a consensus in signal processing that the Gaussian kernel and its partial derivatives enable the development of robust algorithms for feature detection. Fourier analysis and convolution theory have central role in such development. In this paper we collect theoretical elements to follow this avenue but using the q-Gaussian kernel that is a nonextensive generalization of the Gaussian one. ...

Kernel Fisher’s linear discriminant analysis (KFLDA) has been proposed for nonlinear binary classification (Mika, Rätsch, Weston, Schölkopf and Müller, 1999, Baudat and Anouar, 2000). It is a hybrid method of the classical Fisher’s linear discriminant analysis and a kernel machine. Experimental results (e.g., Schölkopf and Smola, 2002) have shown that the KFLDA performs slightly better in terms...

We describe an efficient algorithm which computes the Gaussian kernel correlation integral from noisy time series; this is subsequently used to estimate the underlying correlation dimension and noise level in the noisy data. The algorithm first decomposes the integral core into two separate calculations, reducing computing time from O(N2xN(b)) to O(N2+N(2)(b)). With other further improvements, ...

nowadays, radar systems have many applications and radar imaging is one of the most important of these applications. inverse synthetic aperture radar (isar) is used to form an image from moving targets. conventional methods use fourier transform to retrieve doppler information. however, because of maneuvering of the target, the doppler spectrum becomes time-varying and the image is blurred. joi...

The importance of the support vector machine and its applicability to a wide range of problems is well known. The strength of the support vector machine lies in its kernel. In our recent paper, we have shown how the Laplacian kernel overcomes some of the drawbacks of the Gaussian kernel. However this was not a total remedy for the shortcomings of the Gaussian kernel. In this paper, we design a ...

The importance of the support vector machine and its applicability to a wide range of problems is well known. The strength of the support vector machine lies in its kernel. In our recent paper, we have shown how the Laplacian kernel overcomes some of the drawbacks of the Gaussian kernel. However this was not a total remedy for the shortcomings of the Gaussian kernel. In this paper, we design a ...

Support vector data description (SVDD) is a popular technique for detecting anomalies. The SVDD classifier partitions the whole space into an inlier region, which consists of the region near the training data, and an outlier region, which consists of points away from the training data. The computation of the SVDD classifier requires a kernel function, and the Gaussian kernel is a common choice ...

Inference in popular nonparametric Bayesian models typically relies on sampling or other approximations. This paper presents a general methodology for constructing novel tractable nonparametric Bayesian methods by applying the kernel trick to inference in a parametric Bayesian model. For example, Gaussian process regression can be derived this way from Bayesian linear regression. Despite the su...

This paper presents AutoDJ: a system for automatically generating music playlists based on one or more seed songs selected by a user. AutoDJ uses Gaussian Process Regression to learn a user preference function over songs. This function takes music metadata as inputs. This paper further introduces Kernel Meta-Training, which is a method of learning a Gaussian Process kernel from a distribution o...

Multiscale representation is a methodology that is being used more and more when describing real-world structures. Scale-space representation is one formulation of multiscale representation that has received considerable interest in the literature because of its efficiency in several practical applications and the distinct properties of the Gaussian kernel that generate the scale space. Togethe...