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2018-09-01

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Aldroubi, Akram
Sekmen, Ali
Koku, Ahmet Buğra
Cakmak, Ahmet Faruk

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This paper presents a framework for finding similarity matrices for the segmentation of data W = [w(1)...w(N)] subset of R-D drawn from a union U = boolean OR(M)(i=1) S-i, of independent subspaces {S-i}(i=1)(M), of dimensions {d(i)}(i=1)(M). It is shown that any factorization of W = BP, where columns of B form a basis for data W and they also come from U, can be used to produce a similarity matrix Xi w. In other words, Xi w(i, j) not equal 0, when the columns w(i) and w(j) of W come from the same subspace, and Xi w(i, j) = 0, when the columns w(i) and w(j), of W come from different subspaces. Furthermore, Xi w = Q(dmax), where d(max) = max {d(i)}(i=1)(M), and Q is an element of R-NxN with Q(i, j) = vertical bar P-T(i, j)vertical bar. It is shown that a similarity matrix obtained from the reduced row echelon form of W is a special case of the theory. It is also proven that the Shape Interaction Matrix defined as VVT, where W = U Sigma V-T is the skinny singular value decomposition of W, is not necessarily a similarity matrix. But, taking powers of its absolute value always generates a similarity matrix. An interesting finding of this research is that a similarity matrix can be obtained using a skeleton decomposition of W. First, a square sub-matrix A is an element of R-rxr of W with the same rank r as W is found. Then, the matrix R corresponding to the rows of W that contain A is constructed. Finally, a power of the matrix (PP)-P-T where P = A(-1) R provides a similarity matrix Xi w. Since most of the data matrices are low-rank in many subspace segmentation problems, this is computationally efficient compared to other constructions of similarity matrices.

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Skeleton decomposition, Shape interaction matrix, Similarity matrix, Data clustering, Union of subspaces, Subspace segmentation

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/42591

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