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Fariborz Taherkhani

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AAAI Conference 2019 Conference Paper

Matrix Completion for Graph-Based Deep Semi-Supervised Learning

Fariborz Taherkhani
Hadi Kazemi
Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have provided promising achievements for image classification problems. However, training a CNN model relies on a large number of labeled data. Considering the vast amount of unlabeled data available on the web, it is important to make use of these data in conjunction with a small set of labeled data to train a deep learning model. In this paper, we introduce a new iterative Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning (GSSL) method to train a CNN-based classifier using a large amount of unlabeled data and a small amount of labeled data. In this method, we first construct a similarity graph in which the nodes represent the CNN features corresponding to data points (labeled and unlabeled) while the edges tend to connect the data points with the same class label. In this graph, the missing label of unsupervised nodes is predicted by using a matrix completion method based on rank minimization criterion. In the next step, we use the constructed graph to calculate triplet regularization loss which is added to the supervised loss obtained by initially labeled data to update the CNN network parameters.

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NeurIPS Conference 2018 Conference Paper

Unsupervised Image-to-Image Translation Using Domain-Specific Variational Information Bound

Hadi Kazemi
Sobhan Soleymani
Fariborz Taherkhani
Seyed Iranmanesh
Nasser Nasrabadi

Unsupervised image-to-image translation is a class of computer vision problems which aims at modeling conditional distribution of images in the target domain, given a set of unpaired images in the source and target domains. An image in the source domain might have multiple representations in the target domain. Therefore, ambiguity in modeling of the conditional distribution arises, specially when the images in the source and target domains come from different modalities. Current approaches mostly rely on simplifying assumptions to map both domains into a shared-latent space. Consequently, they are only able to model the domain-invariant information between the two modalities. These approaches cannot model domain-specific information which has no representation in the target domain. In this work, we propose an unsupervised image-to-image translation framework which maximizes a domain-specific variational information bound and learns the target domain-invariant representation of the two domain. The proposed framework makes it possible to map a single source image into multiple images in the target domain, utilizing several target domain-specific codes sampled randomly from the prior distribution, or extracted from reference images.

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