A Generalized Iterated Shrinkage Algorithm for Non-convex Sparse Coding

Wangmeng Zuo, Deyu Meng, Lei Zhang, Xiangchu Feng, David Zhang; Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2013, pp. 217-224

Abstract


In many sparse coding based image restoration and image classification problems, using non-convex p -norm minimization (0 top po1) can often obtain better results than the convex 1 -norm minimization. A number of algorithms, e.g., iteratively reweighted least squares (IRLS), iteratively thresholding method (ITMp ), and look-up table (LUT), have been proposed for non-convex p -norm sparse coding, while some analytic solutions have been suggested for some specific values of p. In this paper, by extending the popular soft-thresholding operator, we propose a generalized iterated shrinkage algorithm (GISA) for p -norm non-convex sparse coding. Unlike the analytic solutions, the proposed GISA algorithm is easy to implement, and can be adopted for solving non-convex sparse coding problems with arbitrary p values. Compared with LUT, GISA is more general and does not need to compute and store the look-up tables. Compared with IRLS and ITMp , GISA is theoretically more solid and can achieve more accurate solutions. Experiments on image restoration and sparse coding based face recognition are conducted to validate the performance of GISA.

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@InProceedings{Zuo_2013_ICCV,
author = {Zuo, Wangmeng and Meng, Deyu and Zhang, Lei and Feng, Xiangchu and Zhang, David},
title = {A Generalized Iterated Shrinkage Algorithm for Non-convex Sparse Coding},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
month = {December},
year = {2013}
}