Related papers: Uncovering Locally Discriminative Structure for Fe…
Combining the advantages of quantum computing and neural networks, quantum neural networks (QNNs) have gained considerable attention recently. However, because of the lack of quantum resource, it is costly to train QNNs. In this work, we…
The usage of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for unsupervised image segmentation was investigated in this study. In the proposed approach, label prediction and network parameter learning are alternately iterated to meet the following…
Dimensionality reduction (DR) plays a vital role in the visual analysis of high-dimensional data. One main aim of DR is to reveal hidden patterns that lie on intrinsic low-dimensional manifolds. However, DR often overlooks important…
Multiple kernel methods less consider the intrinsic manifold structure of multiple kernel data and estimate the consensus kernel matrix with quadratic number of variables, which makes it vulnerable to the noise and outliers within multiple…
Texture is a visual attribute largely used in many problems of image analysis. Currently, many methods that use learning techniques have been proposed for texture discrimination, achieving improved performance over previous handcrafted…
Existing person re-identification (re-id) methods rely mostly on either localised or global feature representation alone. This ignores their joint benefit and mutual complementary effects. In this work, we show the advantages of jointly…
Local learning of sparse image models has proven to be very effective to solve inverse problems in many computer vision applications. To learn such models, the data samples are often clustered using the K-means algorithm with the Euclidean…
This paper proposes a spatial k-nearest neighbor method for nonparametric prediction of real-valued spatial data and supervised classification for categorical spatial data. The proposed method is based on a double nearest neighbor rule…
Manifold Learning occupies a vital role in the field of nonlinear dimensionality reduction and its ideas also serve for other relevant methods. Graph-based methods such as Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) show ideas in common with…
This is a tutorial and survey paper for Locally Linear Embedding (LLE) and its variants. The idea of LLE is fitting the local structure of manifold in the embedding space. In this paper, we first cover LLE, kernel LLE, inverse LLE, and…
Dimensionality reduction is considered as an important step for ensuring competitive performance in unsupervised learning such as anomaly detection. Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is a popular and widely used method to accomplish…
Few-shot learning in image classification aims to learn a classifier to classify images when only few training examples are available for each class. Recent work has achieved promising classification performance, where an image-level…
Though graph representation learning (GRL) has made significant progress, it is still a challenge to extract and embed the rich topological structure and feature information in an adequate way. Most existing methods focus on local structure…
Invoking the manifold assumption in machine learning requires knowledge of the manifold's geometry and dimension, and theory dictates how many samples are required. However, in applications data are limited, sampling may not be uniform, and…
The analyses relying on 3D point clouds are an utterly complex task, often involving million of points, but also requiring computationally efficient algorithms because of many real-time applications; e.g. autonomous vehicle. However, point…
Local feature frameworks are difficult to learn in an end-to-end fashion, due to the discreteness inherent to the selection and matching of sparse keypoints. We introduce DISK (DIScrete Keypoints), a novel method that overcomes these…
Existing nonnegative matrix factorization methods focus on learning global structure of the data to construct basis and coefficient matrices, which ignores the local structure that commonly exists among data. In this paper, we propose a new…
Contrastive learning, which aims to capture general representation from unlabeled images to initialize the medical analysis models, has been proven effective in alleviating the high demand for expensive annotations. Current methods mainly…
Graph learning (GL) can dynamically capture the distribution structure (graph structure) of data based on graph convolutional networks (GCN), and the learning quality of the graph structure directly influences GCN for semi-supervised…
Non-local methods exploiting the self-similarity of natural signals have been well studied, for example in image analysis and restoration. Existing approaches, however, rely on k-nearest neighbors (KNN) matching in a fixed feature space.…