Learning based on kernel discriminant-EM algorithm for image classification

In image classification and other learning-based object recognition tasks, it is often tedious and expensive to label large training data sets. Discriminant-EM (DEM), proposed as a semi-supervised learning framework, takes both labeled and unlabeled data to learn classifiers. The paper extends the linear DEM to a nonlinear kernel algorithm, KDEM, and evaluates KDEM on both benchmark image databases and synthetic data. Various comparisons with other state-of-the-art learning techniques are investigated.