Riemannian Gaussian Distributions on the Space of Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices

DOI10.1109/TIT.2017.2653803zbMATH Open1366.15029arXiv1507.01760OpenAlexW2963167705WikidataQ115263248 ScholiaQ115263248MaRDI QIDQ5280889FDOQ5280889

Authors: Salem Said, Lionel Bombrun, Yannick Berthoumieu, Jonathan H. Manton 

Publication date: 27 July 2017

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Data which lie in the space $mathcal{P}_{m,}$, of $mimesm$ symmetric positive definite matrices, (sometimes called tensor data), play a fundamental role in applications including medical imaging, computer vision, and radar signal processing. An open challenge, for these applications, is to find a class of probability distributions, which is able to capture the statistical properties of data in $mathcal{P}_{m,}$, as they arise in real-world situations. The present paper meets this challenge by introducing Riemannian Gaussian distributions on $mathcal{P}_{m,}$. Distributions of this kind were first considered by Pennec in $2006$. However, the present paper gives an exact expression of their probability density function for the first time in existing literature. This leads to two original contributions. First, a detailed study of statistical inference for Riemannian Gaussian distributions, uncovering the connection between maximum likelihood estimation and the concept of Riemannian centre of mass, widely used in applications. Second, the derivation and implementation of an expectation-maximisation algorithm, for the estimation of mixtures of Riemannian Gaussian distributions. The paper applies this new algorithm, to the classification of data in $mathcal{P}_{m,}$, (concretely, to the problem of texture classification, in computer vision), showing that it yields significantly better performance, in comparison to recent approaches.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.01760

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimation in multivariate analysis (62H12) Random matrices (probabilistic aspects) (60B20) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Methods of local Riemannian geometry (53B21) Positive matrices and their generalizations; cones of matrices (15B48) Matrices over special rings (quaternions, finite fields, etc.) (15B33)

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