Unsupervised feature extraction via kernel subspace techniques

Abstract

This paper provides a new insight into unsupervised feature extraction techniques based on kernel subspace models. The data projected onto kernel subspace models are new data representations which might be better suited for classification. The kernel subspace models are always described exploiting the dual form for the basis vectors which requires that the training data must be available even during the test phase. By exploiting an incomplete Cholesky decomposition of the kernel matrix, a computationally less demanding implementation is proposed. Online benchmark data sets allow the evaluation of these feature extraction methods comparing the performance of two classifiers which both have as input either the raw data or the new representations.