Questions tagged [classification]

is a system of grouping objects of study or observation in accordance with their common features. The classification problem is a formalized task in which a set of objects (cases), separated in some way to classes.

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Why transforming the data to a high-dimensional feature space in which classes are linearly separable leads to overfitting?

I read in my book (statistical pattern classification by Webb and Wiley) in the section about SVMs and linearly non-separable data: In many real-world practical problems there will be no linear boundary separating the classes and the problem of…
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Guidance/Brainstorming for a mapping/classification problem

I'm quite new to machine learning/data mining and I'm struggling to find the correct path for my problem and would appreciate some guidance or criticism of my proposed solution i.e. is there a better/simpler algorithm for the problem? The Problem I…
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Grouping clusters using Mahalanobis distances

I need to know the "number of clusters" in a dataaset. To find the number of clusters, I am using a Gaussian Mixture model fitting, bear with me, Because the underlying distributions (each cluster) are not Gaussian, the GM tends to give very bad…
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Support Vector Machine: A non-probabilistic binary linear classifier

I read that SVM is a supervised learning method, it is also a non-probabilistic binary linear classifier. I understand why it is binary because it classifies our training pattern to two classes $w_1$ and $w_2$ which are labeled as $y_i=+ 1$ and…
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What is a good way to distinguish aircraft noise from other sounds?

The FAA's NextGen routes, which were modeled, not measured, have created a bunch of aircraft noise for tens of thousands of people. I want to make it easy for those people (including me) to buy a cheap USB microphone, plug it into a laptop or PC,…
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Generate and Recognize Graphical Patterns

I'd like to develop an algorithm for recognizing and generating graphical designs. As an example, consider these examples from one class: class 1 example 2 http://185.49.85.137/Kave/up/Decorative-Leaves.jpg Two examples from another class: I want…
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Global partition of image sets using neighbourhood measures

I have the following general problem, I presuppose an image is the addition of $K$ other images $$f(x) = \sum_{k=1}^{K} f_k(x)$$ but I don't know what they are. At each point in an image I obtain $K$ values that represent each of these images, but…
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Compute ADSR: How? Does it make sense?

I'm writing a Master degree thesis on Instrument Recognition using pyAudioAnalysis. I was wondering if results could be improved by also analyzing the ADSR shape of the samples. All I find on the internet about ADSR is related to sound synthesis,…
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