We present here an approach for applying the technique of modeling data transformation manifolds for invariant learning with kernel methods. The approach is based on building a kernel function on the graph modeling the invariant manifold. It provides a way for taking into account nearly arbitrary transformations of the input samples. The approach is verified experimentally on the task of optical character recognition, providing state-of-the-art performance on harder problem settings.
Citation:
Alexei Pozdnoukhov, Samy Bengio, "Graph-based transformation manifolds for invariant pattern recognition with kernel methods," icpr, vol. 4, pp.956, 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'06) Volume 4, 2006