Image Classification Using Fuzzy FCA

Authors

Niruktha Roy Gotoor, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

First Advisor

Jitender Deogun

Date of this Version

12-2019

Document Type

Article

Citation

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Graduate College at the University of Nebraska in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of Master of Science

Major: Computer Science

Under the supervision of Professor Jitender Deogun

Lincoln, Nebraska, December 2019

Comments

Copyright 2019, Niruktha Roy Gotoor. Used by permission

Abstract

Formal concept analysis (FCA) is a mathematical theory based on lattice and order theory used for data analysis and knowledge representation. It has been used in various domains such as data mining, machine learning, semantic web, Sciences, for the purpose of data analysis and Ontology over the last few decades. Various extensions of FCA are being researched to expand it's scope over more departments. In this thesis,we review the theory of Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) and its extension Fuzzy FCA. Many studies to use FCA in data mining and text learning have been pursued. We extend these studies to include classification problems as well. Formal Concept Analysis is a mathematical theory of concepts and conceptual hierarchies, called concept lattices. It studies how objects can hierarchically be grouped together according to their common attributes. FCA is based on a mathematical order theory for data analysis, which extracts concepts and builds a conceptual hierarchy from given data. In order to analyze vague data set of uncertainty information, Fuzzy Formal Concept Analysis (Fuzzy FCA) incorporates fuzzy set theory into FCA. We propose an implementation of fuzzy FCA, a novel approach based on FCA and probability theory for learning and classification problems. It uses an enhanced version of FuzzyLattice which has been developed to store class labels and probability vectors and has the capability to be used for classifying instances with encoded and unlabeled features. We also propose a novel approach to generate intents and extents for each of the nodes in the lattice. We intend to scan the MNIST image database and classify using Fuzzy FCA. Our proposed algorithm for Fuzzy FCA generates a concept lattice creating clusters of images that share similar attributes which meet a minimum threshold value. We evaluate the algorithm on the MNIST images and compare the results with well- known classification algorithms.

Advisor: Jitender Deogun