Paper Info
Title
Adaptive feature weighting for robust Lp-norm sparse representation with application to biometric image classification
Abstract
Sparse representation has attracted much attention in the field of biometrics, such as face recognition and palmprint recognition. Although the $$l_{p}$$-norm $$(0 < p < 1)$$ based sparse representation can obtain more sparse solution than the widely used $$l_{1}$$-norm based method, it needs to solve a non-convex optimization problem, which leads to poor robustness in real application. In this paper, we propose a robust $$l_{p}$$-norm sparse representation method with adaptive feature weighting. We derive the adaptive feature weighting method by self-paced learning (SPL), and utilize it to guide the features of $$l_{p}$$-norm sparse representation in the easy-to-hard learning process. Differing from existing SPL methods, feature weighted SPL in our method dynamically evaluates the learning difficulty of each feature rather than sample. For the advantages of the proposed method, it can avoid $$l_{p}$$-norm sparse minimization failing into bad local minima and reduce the effects of noise feature in the early learning stage. Experiments on several biometric image datasets show that our proposed method is superior to conventional $$l_{p}$$-norm based method and the state-of-the-art classification methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s13042-019-00986-7
International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Biometrics, Feature weighting, Self-paced learning, Sparse representation
Facial recognition system,Weighting,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Sparse approximation,Maxima and minima,Robustness (computer science),Artificial intelligence,Biometrics,Contextual image classification,Optimization problem
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
11
2
1868-8071
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qi Zhu191.48
Nuoya Xu261.09
Sheng-Jun Huang347527.21
Jianjun Qian400.68
Daoqiang Zhang52862165.29