ProximityForest

A proximity forest is a data structure that allows for efficient computation of approximate nearest neighbors of arbitrary data elements in a metric space.

See: O'Hara and Draper, "Are You Using the Right Approximate Nearest Neighbor Algorithm?", WACV 2013 (best student paper award).

One application of a ProximityForest is given in the following CVPR publication:
Stephen O'Hara and Bruce A. Draper, "Scalable Action Recognition with a Subspace Forest," IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2012.

This source code is provided without warranty and is available under the GPL license. More commercially-friendly licenses may be available. Please contact Stephen O'Hara for license options.

Please view the wiki on this site for installation instructions and examples on reproducing the results of the papers.

Features

Approximate Nearest Neighbors of General Metric Spaces
Simple Python code base
Includes Code to Reproduce CVPR 2012 Publication's Results
Includes action recognition examples using a Subspace Forest
Includes Code to Reproduce WACV 2013 Publication's Results

Project Samples

Proximity Forest Nearest Neighbors on 2D Points

Using a Proximity Forest to Cluster KTH Actions

Using a Proximity Forest to Cluster Cambridge Gestures

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License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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Intended Audience

Developers, Science/Research

Programming Language

Python

Related Categories

Python Algorithms, Python Libraries, Python Machine Learning Software, Python Computer Vision Libraries

Registered

2012-05-31

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