Books in the Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning series

This book highlights new advances in biometrics using deep learning toward deeper and wider background, deeming it ¿Deep Biometrics¿. The book aims to highlight recent developments in biometrics using semi-supervised and unsupervised methods such as Deep Neural Networks, Deep Stacked Autoencoder, Convolutional Neural Networks, Generative Adversary Networks, and so on. The contributors demonstrate the power of deep learning techniques in the emerging new areas such as privacy and security issues, cancellable biometrics, soft biometrics, smart cities, big biometric data, biometric banking, medical biometrics, healthcare biometrics, and biometric genetics, etc. The goal of this volume is to summarize the recent advances in using Deep Learning in the area of biometric security and privacy toward deeper and wider applications.Highlights the impact of deep learning over the field of biometrics in a wide area;Exploits the deeper and wider background of biometrics, such as privacy versus security, biometric big data, biometric genetics, and biometric diagnosis, etc.;Introduces new biometric applications such as biometric banking, internet of things, cloud computing, and medical biometrics.

This book highlights the state of the art and recent advances in Big Data clustering methods and their innovative applications in contemporary AI-driven systems.

This book focuses on recent advances, approaches, theories and applications related to mixture models. In particular, it presents recent unsupervised and semi-supervised frameworks that consider mixture models as their main tool. The chapters considers mixture models involving several interesting and challenging problems such as parameters estimation, model selection, feature selection, etc. The goal of this book is to summarize the recent advances and modern approaches related to these problems. Each contributor presents novel research, a practical study, or novel applications based on mixture models, or a survey of the literature.Reports advances on classic problems in mixture modeling such as parameter estimation, model selection, and feature selection;Present theoretical and practical developments in mixture-based modeling and their importance in different applications;Discusses perspectives and challenging future works related to mixture modeling.

Chapter1: A Systematic Review on Supervised & Unsupervised Machine Learning Algorithms for Data Science.- Chapter2: Overview of One-Pass and Discard-After-Learn Concepts for Classification and Clustering in Streaming Environment with Constraints.- Chapter3: Distributed Single-Source Shortest Path Algorithms with Two Dimensional Graph Layout.- Chapter4: Using Non-Negative Tensor Decomposition for Unsupervised Textual Influence Modeling.- Chapter5: Survival Support Vector Machines: A Simulation Study and Its Health-related Application.- Chapter6: Semantic Unsupervised Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation.- Chapter7: Enhanced Tweet Hybrid Recommender System using Unsupervised Topic Modeling and Matrix Factorization based Neural Network.- Chapter8: New Applications of a Supervised Computational Intelligence (CI) Approach: Case Study in Civil Engineering.

This book proposes applications of tensor decomposition to unsupervised feature extraction and feature selection. The author includes advanced descriptions about tensor decomposition including Tucker decomposition using high order singular value decomposition as well as higher order orthogonal iteration, and train tenor decomposition.

This book describes in detail sampling techniques that can be used for unsupervised and supervised cases, with a focus on sampling techniques for machine learning algorithms. It covers theory and models of sampling methods for managing scalability and the ¿curse of dimensionality¿, their implementations, evaluations, and applications. A large part of the book is dedicated to database comprising standard feature vectors, and a special section is reserved to the handling of more complex objects and dynamic scenarios. The book is ideal for anyone teaching or learning pattern recognition and interesting teaching or learning pattern recognition and is interested in the big data challenge. It provides an accessible introduction to the ¿eld and discusses the state of the art concerning sampling techniques for supervised and unsupervised task.Provides a comprehensive description of sampling techniques for unsupervised and supervised tasks;Describe implementationand evaluation of algorithms that simultaneously manage scalable problems and curse of dimensionality;Addresses the role of sampling in dynamic scenarios, sampling when dealing with complex objects, and new challenges arising from big data. "This book represents a timely collection of state-of-the art research of sampling techniques, suitable for anyone who wants to become more familiar with these helpful techniques for tackling the big data challenge."M. Emre Celebi, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science, University of Central Arkansas"In science the difficulty is not to have ideas, but it is to make them work"From Carlo Rovelli

This book describes optimization models of clustering problems and clustering algorithms based on optimization techniques, including their implementation, evaluation, and applications.