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Pairwiseproximitiesdescribethepropertiesofobjectsintermsoftheirsimilarities.Byusingdi¿erentdistance-basedfunctionsonemayencodedi¿erentcharacteristicsofagivenproblem.However,tousetheframeworkofstatisticalpatternrecognitionsomevectorrepresentationshouldbeconstructed.Oneofthesimples ...
StatisticallearningalgorithmsoftenrelyontheEuclideandistance.Inpractice,non-Euclideanornon-metricdissimilaritymeasuresmayarisewhencontours,spectraorshapesarecomparedbyeditdistancesorasaconsequenceofrobustobjectmatching[1,2].Itisanopenissuewhethersuchmeasuresareadvantageousforstat ...