Mercer Kernel Isomap

Isomap [1] is a manifold learning algorithm, which extends classical multidimensional scaling (MDS) by considering approximate geodesic distance instead of Euclidean distance. The approximate geodesic distance matrix can be interpreted as a kernel matrix, which implies that Isomap can be solved by a kernel eigenvalue problem. However, the geodesic distance kernel matrix is not guaranteed to be positive semidefinite. In this paper we employ a constant-adding method, which leads to the Mercer kernel-based Isomap algorithm. Numerical experimental results with noisy 'Swiss roll' data, confirm the validity and high performance of our kernel Isomap algorithm.