Sometimesnoveloroutlierdatahastobedetected.Theoutliersmayindicatesomeinterestingrareevent,ortheyshouldbedisregardedbecausetheycannotbereliablyprocessedfurther.Intheidealcasethattheobjectsarerepresentedbyverygoodfeatures,thegenuinedataformsacompactclusterandagoodoutliermeasureisthedistancetotheclustercenter.Thispaperproposesthreenewformulationsto¿ndagoodclustercentertogetherwithanoptimizedp-distancemeasure.Experimentsshowthatforsomerealworlddatasetsverygoodclassi¿cationresultsareobtainedandthat,morespeci¿cally,the1-distanceisparticularlysuitedfordatasetscontainingdiscretefeaturevalues.@en

In one-class classification one tries to describe a class of target data and to distinguish it from all other possible outlier objects. Obvious applications are areas where outliers are very diverse or very difficult or expensive to measure, such as in machine diagnostics or in medical applications. In order to have a good distinction between the target objects and the outliers, good representation of the data is essential. The performance of many one-class classifiers critically depends on the scaling of the data and is often harmed by data distributions in (nonlinear) subspaces. This paper presents a simple preprocessing method which actively tries to map the data to a spherical symmetric cluster and is almost insensitive to data distributed in subspaces. It uses techniques from Kernel PCA to rescale the data in a kernel feature space to unit variance. This transformed data can now be described very well by the Support Vector Data Description, which basically fits a hypersphere around the data. The paper presents the methods and some preliminary experimental results.@en

When in a classification problem only samples of one class are easily accessible, this problem is called a one-class classification problem. Many standard classifiers, like backpropagation neural networks, fail on this data. Some other classifiers, like k-means clustering or nearest neighbor classifier can be applied after some minor changes. In this paper we focus on the support vector data description classifier, which is especially constructed for one-class classification. But this method appears to be sensitive to scaling of the individual features of the dataset. We show that it is possible to improve its performance by adequate scaling of the feature space. Some results will be shown on artificial dataset and handwritten digits dataset.@en