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Feature extraction using PCA

In this article, we discuss how Principal Component Analysis (PCA) works, and how it can be used as a dimensionality reduction technique for classification problems. At the end of this article, Matlab source code is provided for demonstration purposes. In an earlier article, we discussed the so called...

May 16, 2014 Vincent SpruytFeature extraction14 Comments

The Curse of Dimensionality in classification

In this article, we will discuss the so called ‘Curse of Dimensionality’, and explain why it is important when designing a classifier. In the following sections I will provide an intuitive explanation of this concept, illustrated by a clear example of overfitting due to the curse of dimensionality....