P2S distance induced locally conjugated orthogonal subspace learning for feature extraction.

When performing data classification tasks, it often occurs to them the curse of dimensionality problem. To address the issue, a manifold learning method termed locally conjugated orthogonal subspace (LCOS) is put forward for dimensionality reduction or feature extraction in this paper. Note that point to feature space (P2S) distance contributes to mining local geometry information, both a local margin characterizing data apartness and a locally conjugated orthogonal constraint beneficial to removing data redundancy are well studied from the P2S distance metric. They are all exploited to model the proposed LCOS. Then, a low dimensional subspace can be explored by maximizing the P2S distance induced local margin under the constraint. Compared with some other related dimensionality reduction methods, experimental results on benchmark face and object data sets validate the performance of the proposed method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]