920 research outputs found
Distributed Low-rank Subspace Segmentation
Vision problems ranging from image clustering to motion segmentation to
semi-supervised learning can naturally be framed as subspace segmentation
problems, in which one aims to recover multiple low-dimensional subspaces from
noisy and corrupted input data. Low-Rank Representation (LRR), a convex
formulation of the subspace segmentation problem, is provably and empirically
accurate on small problems but does not scale to the massive sizes of modern
vision datasets. Moreover, past work aimed at scaling up low-rank matrix
factorization is not applicable to LRR given its non-decomposable constraints.
In this work, we propose a novel divide-and-conquer algorithm for large-scale
subspace segmentation that can cope with LRR's non-decomposable constraints and
maintains LRR's strong recovery guarantees. This has immediate implications for
the scalability of subspace segmentation, which we demonstrate on a benchmark
face recognition dataset and in simulations. We then introduce novel
applications of LRR-based subspace segmentation to large-scale semi-supervised
learning for multimedia event detection, concept detection, and image tagging.
In each case, we obtain state-of-the-art results and order-of-magnitude speed
ups
Completing Low-Rank Matrices with Corrupted Samples from Few Coefficients in General Basis
Subspace recovery from corrupted and missing data is crucial for various
applications in signal processing and information theory. To complete missing
values and detect column corruptions, existing robust Matrix Completion (MC)
methods mostly concentrate on recovering a low-rank matrix from few corrupted
coefficients w.r.t. standard basis, which, however, does not apply to more
general basis, e.g., Fourier basis. In this paper, we prove that the range
space of an matrix with rank can be exactly recovered from few
coefficients w.r.t. general basis, though and the number of corrupted
samples are both as high as . Our model covers
previous ones as special cases, and robust MC can recover the intrinsic matrix
with a higher rank. Moreover, we suggest a universal choice of the
regularization parameter, which is . By our
filtering algorithm, which has theoretical guarantees, we can
further reduce the computational cost of our model. As an application, we also
find that the solutions to extended robust Low-Rank Representation and to our
extended robust MC are mutually expressible, so both our theory and algorithm
can be applied to the subspace clustering problem with missing values under
certain conditions. Experiments verify our theories.Comment: To appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theor
Partial Sum Minimization of Singular Values in Robust PCA: Algorithm and Applications
Robust Principal Component Analysis (RPCA) via rank minimization is a
powerful tool for recovering underlying low-rank structure of clean data
corrupted with sparse noise/outliers. In many low-level vision problems, not
only it is known that the underlying structure of clean data is low-rank, but
the exact rank of clean data is also known. Yet, when applying conventional
rank minimization for those problems, the objective function is formulated in a
way that does not fully utilize a priori target rank information about the
problems. This observation motivates us to investigate whether there is a
better alternative solution when using rank minimization. In this paper,
instead of minimizing the nuclear norm, we propose to minimize the partial sum
of singular values, which implicitly encourages the target rank constraint. Our
experimental analyses show that, when the number of samples is deficient, our
approach leads to a higher success rate than conventional rank minimization,
while the solutions obtained by the two approaches are almost identical when
the number of samples is more than sufficient. We apply our approach to various
low-level vision problems, e.g. high dynamic range imaging, motion edge
detection, photometric stereo, image alignment and recovery, and show that our
results outperform those obtained by the conventional nuclear norm rank
minimization method.Comment: Accepted in Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
(TPAMI). To appea
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