Hierarchical linear discriminant analysis for beamforming

Jaegul Choo, Barry L. Drake, Haesun Park

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    Abstract

    This paper demonstrates the applicability of the recently proposed supervised dimension reduction, hierarchical linear discriminant analysis (h-LDA) to a well-known spatial localization technique in signal processing, beamforming. The main motivation of h-LDA is to overcome the drawback of LDA that each cluster is modeled as a unimodal Gaussian distribution. For this purpose, h-LDA extends the variance decomposition in LDA to the subcluster level, and modifies the definition of the within-cluster scatter matrix. In this paper, we present an efficient h-LDA algorithm for oversampled data, where the data dimension is larger than the dimension of the data vectors. The new algorithm utilizes the Cholesky decomposition based on a generalized singular value decomposition framework. Furthermore, we analyze the data model of h-LDA by relating it to the two-way multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), which fits well within the context of beamforming applications. Although beamforming has been generally dealt with as a regression problem, we propose a novel way of viewing beamforming as a classification problem, and apply a supervised dimension reduction, which allows the classifier to achieve better accuracy. Our experimental results show that h-LDA out-performs several dimension reduction methods such as LDA and kernel discriminant analysis, and regression approaches such as the regularized least squares and kernelized support vector regression.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics - 9th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2009, Proceedings in Applied Mathematics 133
    Pages889-900
    Number of pages12
    Publication statusPublished - 2009
    Event9th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2009, SDM 2009 - Sparks, NV, United States
    Duration: 2009 Apr 302009 May 2

    Publication series

    NameSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics - 9th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2009, Proceedings in Applied Mathematics
    Volume2

    Conference

    Conference9th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2009, SDM 2009
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CitySparks, NV
    Period09/4/3009/5/2

    Bibliographical note

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    Copyright 2010 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Computational Theory and Mathematics
    • Software
    • Applied Mathematics

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