Three-fold structured classifier design based on matrix pattern

The traditional vectorized classifier is supposed to incorporate the class structural information but ignore the individual structure of single pattern. In contrast, the matrixized classifier is supposed to consider both the class and the individual structures, and thus gets a superior performance to the vectorized classifier. In this paper, we explore one middle granularity named the cluster between the class and individual, and introduce the cluster structure that means the structure within each class into the matrixized classifier design. Doing so can simultaneously utilize the class, the cluster, and the individual structures in the way that is from global to point. Therefore, the proposed classifier design here owns the three-fold structural information, and can bring the classification performance to an improving trend. In practice, we adopt the Modification of Ho–Kashyap algorithm with Squared approximation of the misclassification errors (MHKS) as the learning paradigm and develop a Three-fold Structured MHKS named TSMHKS. The advantage of the three-fold structural learning framework is considering different close degrees between samples so as to improve the performance. The experimental results demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the TSMHKS. Furthermore, we discuss the theoretical and experimental generalization bound of the proposed algorithm.

► TSMHKS is based on RMultiV-MHKS with class, cluster and individual structures.
► TSMHKS is effective on the process of both image, synthetical and real-world data.
► TSMHKS has a better performance with the clusters from AHC than ones from K-means.
► TSMHKS has a better performance than other algorithms of the family of Ho–Kashyap.