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Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis and Recognition

  • Provides a coherent overview of the emerging field of non-Euclidean similarity learning
  • Presents a broad range of perspectives on similarity-based pattern analysis and recognition methods, from purely theoretical challenges to practical, real-world applications
  • Includes coverage of both supervised and unsupervised learning paradigms, as well as generative and discriminative models
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (ACVPR)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
  2. Introduction: The SIMBAD Project

    • Marcello Pelillo
    Pages 1-10
  3. Foundational Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
    2. Non-Euclidean Dissimilarities: Causes, Embedding and Informativeness

      • Robert P. W. Duin, Elżbieta Pękalska, Marco Loog
      Pages 13-44
    3. SIMBAD: Emergence of Pattern Similarity

      • Joachim M. Buhmann
      Pages 45-64
  4. Deriving Similarities for Non-vectorial Data

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
    2. On the Combination of Information-Theoretic Kernels with Generative Embeddings

      • Pedro M. Q. Aguiar, Manuele Bicego, Umberto Castellani, Mário A. T. Figueiredo, André T. Martins, Vittorio Murino et al.
      Pages 67-83
    3. Learning Similarities from Examples Under the Evidence Accumulation Clustering Paradigm

      • Ana L. N. Fred, André Lourenço, Helena Aidos, Samuel Rota Bulò, Nicola Rebagliati, Mário A. T. Figueiredo et al.
      Pages 85-117
  5. Embedding and Beyond

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
    2. Geometricity and Embedding

      • Peng Ren, Furqan Aziz, Lin Han, Eliza Xu, Richard C. Wilson, Edwin R. Hancock
      Pages 121-155
    3. Structure Preserving Embedding of Dissimilarity Data

      • Volker Roth, Thomas J. Fuchs, Julia E. Vogt, Sandhya Prabhakaran, Joachim M. Buhmann
      Pages 157-177
    4. A Game-Theoretic Approach to Pairwise Clustering and Matching

      • Marcello Pelillo, Samuel Rota Bulò, Andrea Torsello, Andrea Albarelli, Emanuele Rodolà
      Pages 179-216
  6. Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
    2. Automated Analysis of Tissue Micro-Array Images on the Example of Renal Cell Carcinoma

      • Peter J. Schüffler, Thomas J. Fuchs, Cheng Soon Ong, Volker Roth, Joachim M. Buhmann
      Pages 219-245
    3. Analysis of Brain Magnetic Resonance (MR) Scans for the Diagnosis of Mental Illness

      • Aydın Ulaş, Umberto Castellani, Manuele Bicego, Vittorio Murino, Marcella Bellani, Michele Tansella et al.
      Pages 247-287
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 289-291

About this book

This accessible text/reference presents a coherent overview of the emerging field of non-Euclidean similarity learning. The book presents a broad range of perspectives on similarity-based pattern analysis and recognition methods, from purely theoretical challenges to practical, real-world applications. The coverage includes both supervised and unsupervised learning paradigms, as well as generative and discriminative models. Topics and features: explores the origination and causes of non-Euclidean (dis)similarity measures, and how they influence the performance of traditional classification algorithms; reviews similarity measures for non-vectorial data, considering both a “kernel tailoring” approach and a strategy for learning similarities directly from training data; describes various methods for “structure-preserving” embeddings of structured data; formulates classical pattern recognition problems from a purely game-theoretic perspective; examines two large-scale biomedical imagingapplications.

Editors and Affiliations

  • DAIS, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venezia Mestre, Italy

    Marcello Pelillo

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis and Recognition

  • Editors: Marcello Pelillo

  • Series Title: Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5628-4

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-5627-7Published: 12 December 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-6950-5Published: 17 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-5628-4Published: 26 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 2191-6586

  • Series E-ISSN: 2191-6594

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 291

  • Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 46 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Pattern Recognition

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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