NDLI: Learning Gaussian Mixture Models With Entropy-Based Criteria

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Author	Penalver Benavent, A. Escolano Ruiz, F. Saez, J.M.
Copyright Year	1990
Abstract	In this paper, we address the problem of estimating the parameters of Gaussian mixture models. Although the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm yields the maximum-likelihood (ML) solution, its sensitivity to the selection of the starting parameters is well-known and it may converge to the boundary of the parameter space. Furthermore, the resulting mixture depends on the number of selected components, but the optimal number of kernels may be unknown beforehand. We introduce the use of the entropy of the probability density function (pdf) associated to each kernel to measure the quality of a given mixture model with a fixed number of kernels. We propose two methods to approximate the entropy of each kernel and a modification of the classical EM algorithm in order to find the optimum number of components of the mixture. Moreover, we use two stopping criteria: a novel global mixture entropy-based criterion called Gaussianity deficiency (GD) and a minimum description length (MDL) principle-based one. Our algorithm, called entropy-based EM (EBEM), starts with a unique kernel and performs only splitting by selecting the worst kernel attending to GD. We have successfully tested it in probability density estimation, pattern classification, and color image segmentation. Experimental results improve the ones of other state-of-the-art model order selection methods.
Sponsorship	IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
Page Count	16
File Size	2138064
Starting Page	1756
Ending Page	1771
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10459227
Volume Number	20
Issue Number	11
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-11-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Kernel Entropy Parameter estimation Maximum likelihood estimation Probability density function Density measurement Gaussian processes Performance evaluation Testing Pattern classification model order selection Clustering EM algorithm entropy estimation minimum description length (MDL) criterion mixture models
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Artificial Intelligence Computer Networks and Communications Computer Science Applications Software

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