More About Covariance Descriptors for Image Set Coding: Log-Euclidean Framework Based Kernel Matrix Representation

Kai-Xuan Chen, Xiao-Jun Wu, Jie-Yi Ren, Rui Wang, Josef Kittler; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019, pp. 0-0

Abstract


We consider a family of structural descriptors for visual data, namely covariance descriptors (CovDs) that lie on a non-linear symmetric positive definite (SPD) manifold, a special type of Riemannian manifolds. We propose an improved version of CovDs for image set coding by extending the traditional CovDs from Euclidean space to the SPD manifold. Specifically, the manifold of SPD matrices is a complete inner product space with the operations of logarithmic multiplication and scalar logarithmic multiplication defined in the Log-Euclidean framework. In this framework, we characterise covariance structure in terms of the arc-cosine kernel which satisfies Mercer's condition and propose the operation of mean centralization on SPD matrices. Furthermore, we combine arc-cosine kernels of different orders using mixing parameters learnt by kernel alignment in a supervised manner. Our proposed framework provides a lower-dimensional and more discriminative data representation for the task of image set classification. The experimental results demonstrate its superior performance, measured in terms of recognition accuracy, as compared with the state-of-the-art methods.

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@InProceedings{Chen_2019_ICCV,
author = {Chen, Kai-Xuan and Wu, Xiao-Jun and Ren, Jie-Yi and Wang, Rui and Kittler, Josef},
title = {More About Covariance Descriptors for Image Set Coding: Log-Euclidean Framework Based Kernel Matrix Representation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops},
month = {Oct},
year = {2019}
}