Mandar S. Kulkarni, Shankar M. Venkatesan and M. Arunkumar, Philips Research India, India

We propose two novel Tensor Voting (TV) based supervised binary classification algorithms for N-Dimensional (N-D) data points. (a) The first one finds an approximation to a separating hyper-surface that best separates the given two classes in N-D: this is done by finding a set of candidate decision-surface points (using the training data) and then modeling the decision surface by local planes using N-D TV; test points are then classified based on local plane equations. (b) The second algorithm defines a class similarity measure for a given test point t, which is the maximum over all inner products of the vector from t (to training point p) and the tangent at p (computed with TV): t is then assigned the class with the best similarity measure. Our approach is fast, local in nature and is equally valid for different kinds of decisions: we performed several experiments on real and synthetic data to validate our approach, and compared our approaches with standard classifiers such as kNN and Decision Trees.