Deep Dictionary Learning with an Intra-Class Constraint

Xia Yuan, Jianping Gou, Baosheng Yu, Jiali Yu, Zhang Yi

Abstract: In recent years, deep dictionary learning (DDL)has attracted a great amount of attention due to its effectiveness for represen-tation learning and visual recognition. However, most existing methods focus on unsupervised deep dictionary learning, failing to further explore the category information. To make full use of the category information of different samples, we pro-pose a novel deep dictionary learning model with an intra-class constraint (DDLIC) for visual classification. Specif-ically, we design the intra-class compactness constraint on the intermediate representation at different levels to encour-age the intra-class representations to be closer to each other, and eventually the learned representation becomes more dis-criminative. Unlike the traditional DDL methods, during the classification stage, our DDLIC performs a layer-wise greedy optimization in a similar way to the training stage. Experi-mental results on four image datasets show that our method is superior to the state-of-the-art methods.