Revisiting metric learning for SPD matrix based visual representation

RIS ID

125523

Publication Details

Zhou, L., Wang, L., Zhang, J., Shi, Y. & Gao, Y. (2017). Revisiting metric learning for SPD matrix based visual representation. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (pp. 7111-7119). United States: IEEE.

Abstract

The success of many visual recognition tasks largely depends on a good similarity measure, and distance metric learning plays an important role in this regard. Meanwhile, Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrix is receiving increased attention for feature representation in multiple computer vision applications. However, distance metric learning on SPD matrices has not been sufficiently researched. A few existing works approached this by learning either d 2 x p or d x k transformation matrix for d x d SPD matrices. Different from these methods, this paper proposes a new member to the family of distance metric learning for SPD matrices. It learns only d parameters to adjust the eigenvalues of the SPD matrices through an efficient optimisation scheme. Also, it is shown that the proposed method can be interpreted as learning a sample-specific transformation matrix, instead of the fixed transformation matrix learned for all the samples in the existing works. The op-timised d parameters can be used to "massage" the SPD matrices for better discrimination while still keeping them in the original space. From this perspective, the proposed method complements, rather than competes with, the existing linear-transformation-based methods, as the latter can always be applied to the output of the former to perform distance metric learning in further. The proposed method has been tested on multiple SPD-based visual representation data sets used in the literature, and the results demonstrate its interesting properties and attractive performance.

Grant Number

ARC/DE160100241

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