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Dictionary Learning with Incoherence and Sparsity Constraints for Sparse Representation of Nonnegative Signals

Zunyi TANG, Shuxue DING

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This paper presents a method for learning an overcomplete, nonnegative dictionary and for obtaining the corresponding coefficients so that a group of nonnegative signals can be sparsely represented by them. This is accomplished by posing the learning as a problem of nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) with maximization of the incoherence of the dictionary and of the sparsity of coefficients. By incorporating a dictionary-incoherence penalty and a sparsity penalty in the NMF formulation and then adopting a hierarchically alternating optimization strategy, we show that the problem can be cast as two sequential optimal problems of quadratic functions. Each optimal problem can be solved explicitly so that the whole problem can be efficiently solved, which leads to the proposed algorithm, i.e., sparse hierarchical alternating least squares (SHALS). The SHALS algorithm is structured by iteratively solving the two optimal problems, corresponding to the learning process of the dictionary and to the estimating process of the coefficients for reconstructing the signals. Numerical experiments demonstrate that the new algorithm performs better than the nonnegative K-SVD (NN-KSVD) algorithm and several other famous algorithms, and its computational cost is remarkably lower than the compared algorithms.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E96-D No.5 pp.1192-1203
Publication Date
2013/05/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1587/transinf.E96.D.1192
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Biocybernetics, Neurocomputing

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