Conventional vision algorithms adopt a single type of feature or a simple concatenation of multiple features, which is always represented in a high-dimensional space. In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised spectral embedding algorithm called Kernelized Multiview Projection (KMP) to better fuse and embed different feature representations. Computing the kernel matrices from different features views, KMP can encode them with the corresponding weights to achieve a low-dimensional and semantically meaningful subspace where the distribution of each view is sufficiently smooth and discriminative. More crucially, KMP is linear for the reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) and solves the out-of-sample problem, which allows it to be competent for various practical applications. Extensive experiments on three popular image datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our multiview embedding algorithm.
@cite_10: Several unsupervised learning algorithms based on an eigendecomposition provide either an embedding or a clustering only for given training points, with no straightforward extension for out-of-sample examples short of recomputing eigenvectors. This paper provides a unified framework for extending Local Linear Embedding (LLE), Isomap, Laplacian Eigenmaps, Multi-Dimensional Scaling (for dimensionality reduction) as well as for Spectral Clustering. This framework is based on seeing these algorithms as learning eigenfunctions of a data-dependent kernel. Numerical experiments show that the generalizations performed have a level of error comparable to the variability of the embedding algorithms due to the choice of training data.
However, both DSE and MSE are based on nonlinear embedding, which leads to a serious computational complexity problem and the problem @cite_10 . In particular, when we apply them to classification or retrieval tasks, the methods have to be re-trained for learning the low-dimensional embedding when new test data are used. Due to their nonlinearity nature, this will cause heavily computational costs and even become impractical for realistic and large-scale scenarios.