Title
A Projection Free Method for Generalized Eigenvalue Problem With a Nonsmooth Regularizer
Abstract
Eigenvalue problems are ubiquitous in computer vision, covering a very broad spectrum of applications ranging from estimation problems in multi-view geometry to image segmentation. Few other linear algebra problems have a more mature set of numerical routines available and many computer vision libraries leverage such tools extensively. However, the ability to call the underlying solver only as a \"black box\" can often become restrictive. Many 'human in the loop' settings in vision frequently exploit supervision from an expert, to the extent that the user can be considered a subroutine in the overall system. In other cases, there is additional domain knowledge, side or even partial information that one may want to incorporate within the formulation. In general, regularizing a (generalized) eigenvalue problem with such side information remains difficult. Motivated by these needs, this paper presents an optimization scheme to solve generalized eigenvalue problems (GEP) involving a (nonsmooth) regularizer. We start from an alternative formulation of GEP where the feasibility set of the model involves the Stiefel manifold. The core of this paper presents an end to end stochastic optimization scheme for the resultant problem. We show how this general algorithm enables improved statistical analysis of brain imaging data where the regularizer is derived from other 'views' of the disease pathology, involving clinical measurements and other image-derived representations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ICCV.2015.214
ICCV
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer vision,Linear algebra,Mathematical optimization,Stochastic optimization,Subroutine,Domain knowledge,Computer science,Stiefel manifold,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Solver,Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
Conference
2015
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1550-5499
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
20
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Seong Jae Hwang153.16
Maxwell Collins2403.96
Sathya Ravi3208.13
Vamsi K. Ithapu4626.46
Nagesh Adluru520820.57
Sterling Johnson649444.59
Vikas Singh756249.01