General method of pattern classification using the two domain theory
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1. A method for automatic classification of a collection C of patterns using the judgments of human experts on a plurality of sample patterns, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) selecting a set of sample patterns;
(b) manually comparing members of said set of sample patterns to determine the degree of dissimilarity of each member of said set with respect to other members of said set;
(c) producing an ordering Φ
of said members of said set by their degree of dissimilarity in an n-dimensional space by means of multi-dimensional scaling to produce a real-valued ordering Φ
of said sample patterns;
(d) sensing the collection C of patterns to produce a signal S representing said patterns;
(e) processing the signal S to produce a plurality of machine derived signatures representing distributions of primitive features of interest;
(f) calculating the spatial distance among pairs of said patterns from said machine derived signatures to produce a matrix M of interpoint distances; and
(g) creating a mapping of the ordering Φ
on the matrix M by multiple regression;
whereby said collection of patterns is organized into sets of similar patterns.
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Abstract
Human beings judge patterns (such as images) by complex mental processes, some of which may not be known, while computing machines extract features. By representing the human judgements with simple measurements and reducing them and the machine extracted features to a common metric space and fitting them by regression, the judgements of human experts rendered on a sample of patterns may be imposed on a pattern population to provide automatic classification.
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1. A method for automatic classification of a collection C of patterns using the judgments of human experts on a plurality of sample patterns, said method comprising the steps of:
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(a) selecting a set of sample patterns; (b) manually comparing members of said set of sample patterns to determine the degree of dissimilarity of each member of said set with respect to other members of said set; (c) producing an ordering Φ
of said members of said set by their degree of dissimilarity in an n-dimensional space by means of multi-dimensional scaling to produce a real-valued ordering Φ
of said sample patterns;(d) sensing the collection C of patterns to produce a signal S representing said patterns; (e) processing the signal S to produce a plurality of machine derived signatures representing distributions of primitive features of interest; (f) calculating the spatial distance among pairs of said patterns from said machine derived signatures to produce a matrix M of interpoint distances; and (g) creating a mapping of the ordering Φ
on the matrix M by multiple regression;whereby said collection of patterns is organized into sets of similar patterns. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for synthesizing human judgement measurements and machine derived measurements with respect to a collection C of patterns, said method comprising the steps of:
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(a) selecting from the collection C of patterns a sample set comprising a plurality of sample patterns; (b) forming pairs of patterns from said sample set by pairing each sample pattern with at least one other sample pattern; (c) determining, using the subjective judgement of at least one human, a relative degree of dissimilarity between the patterns of each said pair; (d) sensing the collection C of patterns to produce a signal S representing each pattern of said collection; (e) extracting machine derived measurements of selected features from signal S for each pattern of collection C to create a set X of said machine derived feature measurements; (f) selecting from the set X of machine derived feature measurements the subset Y of machine derived feature measurements corresponding to the set of sample patterns of step (a) (g) processing the results of steps (c) and (f) to produce a matrix of weights relating the human judgement measurements with the machine derived feature measurements for the set of sample patterns; and (h) applying the weights from step (g) to the machine derived feature measurements for the set X, whereby, the human judgement measurements and the machine measurements are related for the entire collection C of patterns. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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