Heat kernel coupling for multiple graph analysis

12/11/2013

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by   Michael M. Bronstein, et al.

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In this paper, we introduce heat kernel coupling (HKC) as a method of constructing multimodal spectral geometry on weighted graphs of different size without vertex-wise bijective correspondence. We show that Laplacian averaging can be derived as a limit case of HKC, and demonstrate its applications on several problems from the manifold learning and pattern recognition domain.