# Radon cumulative distribution transform subspace modeling for image classification Source: [Radon cumulative distribution transform subspace modeling for image classification]() Collection index: [llms.txt]() Data updated: 2025-10-27T06:13:32.822Z Authors: Mohammad Shifat-E-Rabbi, Xuwang Yin, Abu Hasnat Mohammad Rubaiyat, Shiying Li, Soheil Kolouri, Akram Aldroubi, Jonathan M. Nichols, Gustavo K. Rohde Published: 2020-04-07T19:47:26.000Z ## Abstract We present a new supervised image classification method applicable to a broad class of image deformation models. The method makes use of the previously described Radon Cumulative Distribution Transform (R-CDT) for image data, whose mathematical properties are exploited to express the image data in a form that is more suitable for machine learning. While certain operations such as translation, scaling, and higher-order transformations are challenging to model in native image space, we show the R-CDT can capture some of these variations and thus render the associated image classification problems easier to solve. The method -- utilizing a nearest-subspace algorithm in R-CDT space -- is simple to implement, non-iterative, has no hyper-parameters to tune, is computationally efficient, label efficient, and provides competitive accuracies to state-of-the-art neural networks for many types of classification problems. In addition to the test accuracy performances, we show improvements (with respect to neural network-based methods) in terms of computational efficiency (it can be implemented without the use of GPUs), number of training samples needed for training, as well as out-of-distribution generalization. The Python code for reproducing our results is available at https://github.com/rohdelab/rcdt\_ns\_classifier. ## Recorded benchmark results A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage. ## Original sources and implementation [Original paper]() [PDF]()