Issue No. 02 - Feb. (2014 vol. 36)
ISSN: 0162-8828
pp: 261-275
Ran He , Nat. Lab. of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), Inst. of Autom., Beijing, China
Wei-Shi Zheng , Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Sun Yat-sen Univ., Guangzhou, China
Tieniu Tan , Nat. Lab. of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), Inst. of Autom., Beijing, China
Zhenan Sun , Nat. Lab. of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), Inst. of Autom., Beijing, China
ABSTRACT
Robust sparse representation has shown significant potential in solving challenging problems in computer vision such as biometrics and visual surveillance. Although several robust sparse models have been proposed and promising results have been obtained, they are either for error correction or for error detection, and learning a general framework that systematically unifies these two aspects and explores their relation is still an open problem. In this paper, we develop a half-quadratic (HQ) framework to solve the robust sparse representation problem. By defining different kinds of half-quadratic functions, the proposed HQ framework is applicable to performing both error correction and error detection. More specifically, by using the additive form of HQ, we propose an ℓ1-regularized error correction method by iteratively recovering corrupted data from errors incurred by noises and outliers; by using the multiplicative form of HQ, we propose an ℓ1-regularized error detection method by learning from uncorrupted data iteratively. We also show that the ℓ1-regularization solved by soft-thresholding function has a dual relationship to Huber M-estimator, which theoretically guarantees the performance of robust sparse representation in terms of M-estimation. Experiments on robust face recognition under severe occlusion and corruption validate our framework and findings.
INDEX TERMS
Robustness, Minimization, Additives, Error correction, Optimization, Algorithm design and analysis, Noise,correntropy, $(\ell_1)$-minimization, half-quadratic optimization, sparse representation, M-estimator
CITATION
Ran He, Wei-Shi Zheng, Tieniu Tan, Zhenan Sun, "Half-Quadratic-Based Iterative Minimization for Robust Sparse Representation", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, vol. 36, no. , pp. 261-275, Feb. 2014, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2013.102