An efficient matrix factorization based low-rank representation for subspace clustering

  • Authors:
  • Yuanyuan Liu;L. C. Jiao;Fanhua Shang

  • Affiliations:
  • Key Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding of Ministry of Education of China, Xidian University, Mailbox 224, No. 2 South TaiBai Road, Xi'an 710071, China;Key Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding of Ministry of Education of China, Xidian University, Mailbox 224, No. 2 South TaiBai Road, Xi'an 710071, China;Key Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding of Ministry of Education of China, Xidian University, Mailbox 224, No. 2 South TaiBai Road, Xi'an 710071, China

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In recent years, robust subspace clustering is an important unsupervised clustering problem in machine learning and computer vision communities. The recently proposed spectral clustering based approach, called low-rank representation (LRR), yields an optimal solution for the case of independent subspaces and partially corrupted data. However, it has to be solved iteratively and involves singular value decomposition (SVD) at each iteration, and then suffers from high computation cost of multiple SVDs. In this paper, we propose an efficient matrix tri-factorization (MTF) approach with a positive semidefinite (PSD) constraint to approximate the original nuclear norm minimization (NNM) problem and mitigate the computation cost of performing SVDs. Specially, we introduce a matrix tri-factorization idea into the original low-rank representation framework, and then convert it into a small scale matrix nuclear norm minimization problem. Finally, we establish an alternating direction method (ADM) based algorithm to efficiently solve the proposed problem. Experimental results on a variety of synthetic and real-world data sets validate the efficiency, robustness and effectiveness of the proposed MTF approach comparing with the state-of-the-art algorithms.