Major Steps of the Q5 Algorithm. The steps involved in building a two-class classifier are
illustrated using simplified artificial spectra. On the left are training (red,
blue) and testing (green) spectra.
Shown on the right, from top to bottom, are (1) the spectral space representation of each spectrum; (2) PCA: the result of dimensionality reduction (for simplicity we show the projection onto just the top two
principle components); (3) LDA: the projection of each spectrum onto the discriminant
surface H; and (4) the probabilistic classification. In this example the testing
spectrum denoted by the green square is classified as belonging
to the class denoted by blue circles, while the spectrum denoted by the green
triangle is unclassified.