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Object classification according to their shape and size is of key importance in many scientific fields. This work focuses on the case where the size and shape of an object is characterized by a current. A current is a mathematical object which has been proved relevant to the modeling of geometrical data, like submanifolds, through integration of vector fields along them. As a consequence of the choice of a vector-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) as a test space for integrating manifolds, it is possible to consider that shapes are embedded in this Hilbert Space. A vector-valued RKHS is a Hilbert space of vector fields; therefore, it is possible to compute a mean of shapes, or to calculate a distance between two manifolds. This embedding enables us to consider size-and-shape clustering algorithms. These algorithms are applied to a 3D database obtained from an anthropometric survey of the Spanish child population with a potential application to online sales of children’s wear.
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This paper has been partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation Project DPI2013 – 47279 – C2 – 1 – R. We would also like to thank the Valencian Institute of Biomechanics for providing us with the data set. S.
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Barahona, S., Gual-Arnau, X., Ibáñez, M.V. et al. Unsupervised classification of children’s bodies using currents. Adv Data Anal Classif 12, 365–397 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11634-017-0283-0
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