Robust subspace clustering with independent and piecewise identically distributed noise modeling

Y Li, J Zhou, X Zheng, J Tian… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and …, 2019openaccess.thecvf.com
Most of the existing subspace clustering (SC) frameworks assume that the noise
contaminating the data is generated by an independent and identically distributed (iid)
source, where the Gaussianity is often imposed. Though these assumptions greatly simplify
the underlying problems, they do not hold in many real-world applications. For instance, in
face clustering, the noise is usually caused by random occlusions, local variations and
unconstrained illuminations, which is essentially structural and hence satisfies neither the iid …
Abstract
Most of the existing subspace clustering (SC) frameworks assume that the noise contaminating the data is generated by an independent and identically distributed (iid) source, where the Gaussianity is often imposed. Though these assumptions greatly simplify the underlying problems, they do not hold in many real-world applications. For instance, in face clustering, the noise is usually caused by random occlusions, local variations and unconstrained illuminations, which is essentially structural and hence satisfies neither the iid property nor the Gaussianity. In this work, we propose an independent and piecewise identically distributed (ipid) noise model, where the iid property only holds locally. We demonstrate that the ipid model better characterizes the noise encountered in practical scenarios, and accommodates the traditional iid model as a special case. Assisted by this generalized noise model, we design an information theoretic learning (ITL) framework for robust SC through a novel minimum weighted error entropy (MWEE) criterion. Extensive experimental results show that our proposed SC scheme significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art competing algorithms.
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