Feature Integration Via Semi-Supervised Ordinally Multi-Modal Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model

This paper presents a method of feature integration via semi-supervised ordinally multi-modal Gaussian process latent variable model (Semi-OMGP). The proposed method transforms multi-modal features into common latent variables suitable for users’ interest level estimation. For dealing with the multi-modal features, the proposed method newly derives Semi-OMGP. Semi-OMGP has two contributions. First, Semi-OMGP is suitable for integration between heterogeneous modalities with different distributions by assuming that the similarity matrices of these modalities as observations are generated from latent variables. Second, Semi-OMGP can efficiently use label information by introducing an operator considering the ordinal grade into the prior distribution of latent variables when obtained label information is partially given. Semi-OMGP can simultaneously realize the above contributions, and successful multi-modal feature integration becomes feasible. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.