Title
A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach Toward Stacked Convolutional Independent Component Analysis.
Abstract
Unsupervised feature learning algorithms based on convolutional formulations of independent components analysis (ICA) have been demonstrated to yield state-of-the-art results in several action recognition benchmarks. However, existing approaches do not allow for the number of latent components (features) to be automatically inferred from the data in an unsupervised manner. This is a significant disadvantage of the state-of-the-art, as it results in considerable burden imposed on researchers and practitioners, who must resort to tedious cross-validation procedures to obtain the optimal number of latent features. To resolve these issues, in this paper we introduce a convolutional nonparametric Bayesian sparse ICA architecture for overcomplete feature learning from high-dimensional data. Our method utilizes an Indian buffet process prior to facilitate inference of the appropriate number of latent features under a hybrid variational inference algorithm, scalable to massive datasets. As we show, our model can be naturally used to obtain deep unsupervised hierarchical feature extractors, by greedily stacking successive model layers, similar to existing approaches. In addition, inference for this model is completely heuristics-free, thus, it obviates the need of tedious parameter tuning, which is a major challenge most deep learning approaches are faced with. We evaluate our method on several action recognition benchmarks, and exhibit its advantages over the state-of-the-art.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ICCV.2015.321
international conference on computer vision
Field
DocType
Volume
Pattern recognition,Convolution,Computer science,Inference,Nonparametric bayesian,Feature extraction,Independent component analysis,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Machine learning,Feature learning,Scalability
Journal
abs/1411.4423
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1550-5499
978-1-4673-8391-2
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
19
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sotirios P. Chatzis1305.94
Dimitrios Kosmopoulos218212.48