An M-Estimator for Robust Centroid Estimation on the Manifold of Covariance Matrices
Résumé
This paper introduces a new robust estimation method for the central value of a set of N covariance matrices. This estimator, called the Huber's centroid, is described starting from the expression of two well-known methods, that are the center of mass and the median. In addition, a computation algorithm based on the gradient descent is proposed. Moreover, the Huber's centroid performances are analyzed on simulated data, to identify the impact of outliers on the estimation process. In the end, the algorithm is applied to brain decoding, based on magnetoencephalography (MEG) data. For both simulated and real data, the covariance matrices are considered as realizations of Riemannian Gaussian distributions and the results are compared to those given by the center of mass and the median.
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