Abstract
In complex pattern recognition tasks, objects are typically characterized by means of multimodality attributes, including categorical, numerical, text, image, audio, and even videos. In these cases, data are usually high dimensional, structurally complex, and granular. Those attributes exhibit some redundancy and irrelevant information. The evaluation, selection, and combination of multimodality attributes pose great challenges to traditional classification algorithms. Multikernel learning handles multimodality attributes by using different kernels to extract information coming from different attributes. However, it cannot consider the aspects fuzziness in fuzzy classification. Fuzzy rough sets emerge as a powerful vehicle to handle fuzzy and uncertain attribute reduction. In this paper, we design a framework of multimodality attribute reduction based on multikernel fuzzy rough sets. First, a combination of kernels based on set theory is defined to extract fuzzy similarity for fuzzy classification with multimodality attributes. Then, a model of multikernel fuzzy rough sets is constructed. Finally, we design an efficient attribute reduction algorithm for large scale multimodality fuzzy classification based on the proposed model. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model and the corresponding algorithm.