Title
Matrix Variate Distribution-Induced Sparse Representation for Robust Image Classification
Abstract
Sparse representation learning has been successfully applied into image classification, which represents a given image as a linear combination of an over-complete dictionary. The classification result depends on the reconstruction residuals. Normally, the images are stretched into vectors for convenience, and the representation residuals are characterized by l₂-norm or l₁-norm, which actually assumes that the elements in the residuals are independent and identically distributed variables. However, it is hard to satisfy the hypothesis when it comes to some structural errors, such as illuminations, occlusions, and so on. In this paper, we represent the image data in their intrinsic matrix form rather than concatenated vectors. The representation residual is considered as a matrix variate following the matrix elliptically contoured distribution, which is robust to dependent errors and has long tail regions to fit outliers. Then, we seek the maximum a posteriori probability estimation solution of the matrix-based optimization problem under sparse regularization. An alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMMs) is derived to solve the resulted optimization problem. The convergence of the ADMM is proven theoretically. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method is more effective than the state-of-the-art methods when dealing with the structural errors.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/TNNLS.2014.2377477
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMMs), elliptically contoured distribution, matrix distribution, sparse representation
Random variate,Pattern recognition,Matrix (mathematics),Sparse approximation,Regularization (mathematics),Independent and identically distributed random variables,Artificial intelligence,Maximum a posteriori estimation,Contextual image classification,Sparse matrix,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
PP
99
2162-237X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
0.50
22
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
J. Chen111223.18
Jian Yang26102339.77
Lei Luo322725.26
Jianjun Qian438227.74
Wei Xu532938.14