%Aigaion2 BibTeX export from Idiap Publications %Thursday 21 November 2024 12:27:03 PM @TECHREPORT{pozd05-32, author = {Pozdnoukhov, Alexei and Bengio, Samy}, projects = {Idiap}, title = {A Kernel Classifier for Distributions}, type = {Idiap-RR}, number = {Idiap-RR-32-2005}, year = {2005}, institution = {IDIAP}, note = {Submitted to NIPS}, abstract = {This paper presents a new algorithm for classifying distributions. The algorithm combines the principle of margin maximization and a kernel trick, applied to distributions. Thus, it combines the discriminative power of support vector machines and the well-developed framework of generative models. It can be applied to a number of real-life tasks which include data represented as distributions. The algorithm can also be applied for introducing some prior knowledge on invariances into a discriminative model. We illustrate this approach in details for the case of Gaussian distributions, using a toy problem. We also present experiments devoted to the real-life problem of invariant image classification.}, pdf = {https://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2005/rr05-32.pdf}, postscript = {ftp://ftp.idiap.ch/pub/reports/2005/rr05-32.ps.gz}, ipdmembership={learning}, }