Title
A Review of Fast l1-Minimization Algorithms for Robust Face Recognition
Abstract
l1-minimization refers to finding the minimum l1-norm solution to an underdetermined linear system b=Ax. It has recently received much attention, mainly motivated by the new compressive sensing theory that shows that under quite general conditions the minimum l1-norm solution is also the sparsest solution to the system of linear equations. Although the underlying problem is a linear program, conventional algorithms such as interior-point methods suffer from poor scalability for large-scale real world problems. A number of accelerated algorithms have been recently proposed that take advantage of the special structure of the l1-minimization problem. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of five representative approaches, namely, Gradient Projection, Homotopy, Iterative Shrinkage-Thresholding, Proximal Gradient, and Augmented Lagrange Multiplier. The work is intended to fill in a gap in the existing literature to systematically benchmark the performance of these algorithms using a consistent experimental setting. In particular, the paper will focus on a recently proposed face recognition algorithm, where a sparse representation framework has been used to recover human identities from facial images that may be affected by illumination, occlusion, and facial disguise. MATLAB implementations of the algorithms described in this paper have been made publicly available.
Year
Venue
DocType
2010
Computing Research Repository
Journal
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1007.3
30
2.59
References 
Authors
24
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Allen Y. Yang15216183.98
Arvind Ganesh24904153.80
Zihan Zhou383339.42
Shankar Sastry4119771291.58
Yi Ma514931536.21