A Nonconvex Projection Method for Robust PCA
Abstract
Robust principal component analysis (RPCA) is a well-studied problem with the goal of decomposing a matrix into the sum of low-rank and sparse components. In this paper, we propose a nonconvex feasibility reformulation of RPCA problem and apply an alternating projection method to solve it. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to propose a method that solves RPCA problem without considering any objective function, convex relaxation, or surrogate convex constraints. We demonstrate through extensive numerical experiments on a variety of applications, including shadow removal, background estimation, face detection, and galaxy evolution, that our approach matches and often significantly outperforms current state-of-the-art in various ways.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1805.07962,
title = {A Nonconvex Projection Method for Robust PCA},
author = {Aritra Dutta and Filip Hanzely and Peter Richtárik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.07962},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
In the proceedings of Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19)