• Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.50 no.2
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• pp.195-206
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• 2017

Joint time-frequency images of the broadband echo signals of six fish species were obtained using the smoothed pseudo-Wigner-Ville distribution in controlled environments. Affine transformation and principal component analysis were used to obtain eigenimages that provided species-specific acoustic features for each of the six fish species. The echo images of an unknown fish species, acquired in real time and in a fully automated fashion, were identified by finding the smallest Euclidean or Mahalanobis distance between each combination of weight matrices of the test image of the fish species to be identified and of the eigenimage classes of each of six fish species in the training set. The experimental results showed that the Mahalanobis classifier performed better than the Euclidean classifier in identifying both single- and mixed-species groups of all species assessed.

• International Journal of Quality Innovation
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.113-131
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• 2002

The relationships among multi-dimensional data (such as medical examination data) with ambiguity and variation are difficult to explore. The traditional approach to building a data classification system requires the formulation of rules by which the input data can be analyzed. The formulation of such rules is very difficult with large sets of input data. This paper first describes two classification approaches using back-propagation (BP) neural network and Mahalanobis distance (MD) classifier, and then proposes two classification approaches for multi-dimensional feature selection. The first one proposed is a feature selection procedure from the trained back-propagation (BP) neural network. The basic idea of this procedure is to compare the multiplication weights between input and hidden layer and hidden and output layer. In order to simplify the structure, only the multiplication weights of large absolute values are used. The second approach is Mahalanobis-Taguchi system (MTS) originally suggested by Dr. Taguchi. The MTS performs Taguchi's fractional factorial design based on the Mahalanobis distance as a performance metric. We combine the automatic thresholding with MD: it can deal with a reduced model, which is the focus of this paper In this work, two case studies will be used as examples to compare and discuss the complete and reduced models employing BP neural network and MD classifier. The implementation results show that proposed approaches are effective and powerful for the classification.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.29 no.1E
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• pp.45-53
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• 2010

In this paper, we present the use of the Features Weighted Mahalanobis Distance (FWMD) in improving the performance of Likelihood Maximizing Beamforming (Limabeam) algorithm in speech recognition for microphone array. The proposed approach is based on the replacement of the traditional distance measure in a Gaussian classifier with adding weight for different features in the Mahalanobis distance according to their distances after the variance normalization. By using Features Weighted Mahalanobis Distance for Limabeam algorithm (FWMD-Limabeam), we obtained correct word recognition rate of 90.26% for calibrate Limabeam and 87.23% for unsupervised Limabeam, resulting in a higher rate of 3% and 6% respectively than those produced by the original Limabearn. By implementing a HM-Net speech recognition strategy alternatively, we could save memory and reduce computation complexity.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.711-718
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• 2011

The k-Nearest Neighbor classifier that does not require a training phase is appropriate for a variable number of classes problem like face recognition, Recently distance metric learning methods that is trained with a given data set have reported the significant improvement of the kNN classifier. However, the performance of a distance metric learning method is variable for each application, In this paper, we focus on the face recognition and compare the performance of the state-of-the-art distance metric learning methods, Our experimental results on the public face databases demonstrate that the Mahalanobis distance metric based on PCA is still competitive with respect to both performance and time complexity in face recognition.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.354-361
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• 2004

To improve fault isolation performance of the Bayes isolator, this paper proposes the Fuzzy-Bayes isolator, which uses the Fuzzy-Bayes classifier as a fault isolator. The Fuzzy-Bayes classifier is composed of the Bayes classifier and weighting factor, which is determined by fuzzy inference logic. The Mahalanobis distance derivative is mapped to the weighting factor by fuzzy inference logic. The Fuzzy-Bayes fault isolator is designed for the BLDC motor fault diagnosis system. Fault isolation performance is evaluated by the experiments. The research results indicate that the Fuzzy-Bayes fault isolator improves fault isolation performance and that it can reduce the transition region chattering that is occurred when the fault is injected. In the experiment, chattering is reduced by about half that of the Bayes classifier's.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.43 no.1 s.307
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• pp.9-16
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• 2006

RDA(Relational Discriminant Analysis) is a way of finding classifiers based on the dissimilarity measures among the prototypes extracted from feature vectors instead of the feature vectors themselves. Therefore, the accuracy of the RDA classifier is dependent on the methods of selecting prototypes and measuring proximities. In this paper we propose to utilize PRS(Prototype Reduction Schemes) and Mahalanobis distances to devise a method of increasing classification accuracies. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed mechanism increases the classification accuracy compared with the conventional approaches for samples involving real-life data sets as well as artificial data sets.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 1993.10a
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• pp.403-412
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• 1993

This paper presents the progress of the development of a nondestructive technique for the classification of normal, septicemic , and cadaver poultry carcasses by the Instrumentation and Sensing Laboratory at Beltsville, Maryland, U.S.A. The Sensing technique is based on the diffuse reflectance spectroscopy of poultry carcasses.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.27 no.8
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• pp.1239-1249
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• 1990

In this paper, using the neural network design techniques, an adaptive Mahalanobis distance classifier(AMDC) is designed. This classifier has three layers: input layer, internal layer and output layer. The connection from input layer to internal layer is fully connected, and that from internal to output layer has partial connection that might be thought as an Oring. If two ormore clusters of patterns of one class are laid apart in the feature space, the network adaptively generate the internal nodes, whhch are corresponding to the subclusters of that class. The number of the output nodes in just same as the number of the classes to classify, on the other hand, the number of the internal nodes is defined by the number of the subclusters, and can be optimized by itself. Using the method of making the subclasses, the different patterns that are of the same class can easily be distinguished from other classes. If additional training is needed after the completion of the traning, the AMDC does not have to repeat the trainging that has already done. To test the performance of the AMDC, the experiments of classifying 500 Hangeuls were done. In experiment, 20 print font sets of Hangeul characters(10,000 cahracters) were used for training, and with 3 sets(1,500 characters), the AMDC was tested for various initial variance \ulcornerand threshold \ulcorner and compared with other statistical or neural classifiers.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.464-468
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• 2009

In this paper we propose an image-based approach, which is different from the traditional flow cytometric method to detect shape of apoptosis cells. This method can overcome the defects of cytometry and give precise recognition of apoptosis cells. In this work K-means clustering was used to do the rough segmentation and an active contour model, called 'snake' was used to do the precise edge detection. And then some features were extracted including physical feature, shape descriptor and texture features of the apoptosis cells. Finally a Mahalanobis distance classifier classifies the segmentation images as apoptosis and non-apoptosis cell.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.677-682
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• 2010

This paper addresses a method of estimating roughly the human pose by comparing Haar-wavelet value which is learned in face detection technology using AdaBoost algorithm. We also presents its application to face recognition. The learned weak classifier is used to a Haar-wavelet robust to each pose's feature by comparing the coefficients during the process of face detection. The Mahalanobis distance is used to measure the matching degree in Haar-wavelet selection. When a facial image is detected using the selected Haar-wavelet, the pose is estimated. The proposed pose estimation can be used to improve face recognition speed. Experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed method for pose estimation.