Discriminative multiview nonnegative matrix factorization with large margin for image classification

Abstract

Image classification has attracted lots of attentions in recent years. To improve classification accuracy, multiple features are usually extracted to represent the context of images, which imposes a challenge for the combination of those features. To address this problem, we present a discriminative nonnegative multi-view learning approach for image classification based on the observation that those features are often nonnegative. For discrimination, we utilize class label as an auxiliary information to learn discriminative common representations through a set of nonnegative basis vectors with large margin. Meanwhile, view consistency constraint is imposed on the low-dimensional representations and correntropy-induced metric (CIM) is adopted for the measurement of reconstruction errors. We utilized half-quadratic optimization technique to solve the optimization problem and obtain an effective multiplicative update rule. Experimental results demonstrate the learned common latent representations by the proposed method are more efficient than other methods.