Analysis of Robust Soft Learning Vector Quantization and an application to Facial Expression Recognition

Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ) is a popular method for multiclass classification. Several variants of LVQ have been developed recently, of which Robust Soft Learning Vector Quantization (RSLVQ) is a promising one. Although LVQ methods have an intuitive design with clear updating rules, their dynamics are not yet well understood. In simulations within a controlled environment RSLVQ performed very close to optimal. This controlled environment enabled us to perform a mathematical analysis as a first step in obtaining a better theoretical understanding of the learning dynamics. In this talk I will discuss the theoretical analysis and its results. Moreover, I will focus on the practical application of RSLVQ to a real world dataset containing extracted features from facial expression data

09081 Abstracts Collection -- Similarity-based learning on structures

From 15.02. to 20.02.2009, the Dagstuhl Seminar 09081 ``Similarity-based learning on structures \u27\u27 was held in Schloss Dagstuhl~--~Leibniz Center for Informatics. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section describes the seminar topics and goals in general. Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available