Learning discriminative dictionaries with partially labeled data

Abstract

While recent techniques for discriminative dictionary learning have demonstrated tremendous success in image analysis applications, their performance is often limited by the amount of labeled data available for training. Even though labeling images is difficult, it is relatively easy to collect unlabeled images either by querying the web or from public datasets. In this paper, we propose a discriminative dictionary learning technique which utilizes both labeled and unlabeled data for learning dictionaries. Extensive evaluation on existing datasets demonstrate that the proposed method performs significantly better than state of the art dictionary learning approaches when unlabeled images are available for training.