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    Non-Gaussian Data Clustering via Expectation Propagation Learning of Finite Dirichlet Mixture Models and Applications

    Learning appropriate statistical models is a fundamental data analysis task which has been the topic of continuing interest. Recently, finite Dirichlet mixture models have proved to be an effective and flexibl...

    Wentao Fan, Nizar Bouguila in Neural Processing Letters (2014)

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    Variational learning of hierarchical infinite generalized Dirichlet mixture models and applications

    Data clustering is a fundamental unsupervised learning task in several domains such as data mining, computer vision, information retrieval, and pattern recognition. In this paper, we propose and analyze a new ...

    Wentao Fan, Hassen Sallay, Nizar Bouguila, Sami Bourouis in Soft Computing (2016)

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    Model-Based Clustering Based on Variational Learning of Hierarchical Infinite Beta-Liouville Mixture Models

    In this work, we develop a statistical framework for data clustering which uses hierarchical Dirichlet processes and Beta-Liouville distributions. The parameters of this framework are leaned using two variatio...

    Wentao Fan, Nizar Bouguila in Neural Processing Letters (2016)

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    A Novel Model-Based Approach for Medical Image Segmentation Using Spatially Constrained Inverted Dirichlet Mixture Models

    In this paper, we present a novel statistical approach to medical image segmentation. This approach is based on finite mixture models with spatial smoothness constrains. The main advantages of the proposed app...

    Wentao Fan, Can Hu, Jixiang Du, Nizar Bouguila in Neural Processing Letters (2018)

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    Simultaneous clustering and feature selection via nonparametric Pitman–Yor process mixture models

    Mixture models constitute one of the most important machine learning approaches. Indeed, they can be considered as the workhorse of generative machine learning. The majority of existing works consider mixtures...

    Wentao Fan, Nizar Bouguila in International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics (2019)

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    Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation Based on Mixture Models and Saliency Detection

    In this paper, we propose an unsupervised video object segmentation approach which is mainly based on a saliency detection method and the Gaussian mixture model with Markov random field. In our approach, the s...

    Guofeng Lin, Wentao Fan in Neural Processing Letters (2020)

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    Unsupervised modeling and feature selection of sequential spherical data through nonparametric hidden Markov models

    As spherical data (i.e. \(L_2\) L 2 ...

    Wentao Fan, Wenjuan Hou in International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics (2022)

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    Occupancy estimation in smart buildings using predictive modeling in imbalanced domains

    This paper introduces a novel approach for occupancy estimation in smart buildings. In particular, we focus on the challenging yet common situation where the amount of training data is small and imbalanced (i....

    Jiaxun Guo, Manar Amayri, Fatma Najar in Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humani… (2023)

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    Transformer-based contrastive learning framework for image anomaly detection

    Anomaly detection refers to the problem of uncovering patterns in a given data set that do not conform to the expected behavior. Recently, owing to the continuous development of deep representation learning, a...

    Wentao Fan, Weimin Shangguan, Yewang Chen in International Journal of Machine Learning … (2023)

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    Deep generative clustering methods based on disentangled representations and augmented data

    This paper presents a novel clustering approach that utilizes variational autoencoders (VAEs) with disentangled representations, enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of clustering. Traditional VAE-based ...

    Kunxiong Xu, Wentao Fan, **n Liu in International Journal of Machine Learning … (2024)

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    Unsupervised image categorization based on deep generative models with disentangled representations and von Mises-Fisher distributions

    Variational autoencoders (VAEs) have emerged as powerful deep generative models for learning abstract representations in the latent space, making them highly applicable across diverse domains. This paper prese...

    Wentao Fan, Kunxiong Xu in International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics (2024)