This report concerns the use of techniques for sparse signal representation
and sparse error correction for automatic face recognition. Much of the recent
interest in these techniques comes from the paper "Robust Face Recognition via
Sparse Representation" by Wright et al. (2009), which showed how, under certain
technical conditions, one could cast the face recognition problem as one of
seeking a sparse representation of a given input face image in terms of a
"dictionary" of training images and images of individual pixels.
Underlay cognitive radios (UCRs) allow a secondary user to enter a primary
user's spectrum through intelligent utilization of multiuser channel quality
information (CQI) and sharing of codebook. The aim of this work is to study
two-user Gaussian UCR systems by assuming the full or partial knowledge of
multiuser CQI. Key contribution of this work is motivated by the fact that the
full knowledge of multiuser CQI is not always available.
l1-minimization refers to finding the minimum l1-norm solution to an
underdetermined linear system b=Ax. It has recently received much attention,
mainly motivated by the new compressive sensing theory that shows that under
quite general conditions the minimum l1-norm solution is also the sparsest
solution to the system of linear equations. Although the underlying problem is
a linear program, conventional algorithms such as interior-point methods suffer
from poor scalability for large-scale real world problems.
In this paper, we study the problem of recovering a low-rank matrix (the
principal components) from a high-dimensional data matrix despite both small
entry-wise noise and gross sparse errors. Recently, it has been shown that a
convex program, named Principal Component Pursuit (PCP), can recover the
low-rank matrix when the data matrix is corrupted by gross sparse errors. We
further prove that the solution to a related convex program (a relaxed PCP)
gives an estimate of the low-rank matrix that is simultaneously stable to small
entrywise noise and robust to gross sparse errors.
We consider the problem of recovering a low-rank matrix when some of its
entries, whose locations are not known a priori, are corrupted by errors of
arbitrarily large magnitude. It has recently been shown that this problem can
be solved efficiently and effectively by a convex program named Principal
Component Pursuit (PCP), provided that the fraction of corrupted entries and
the rank of the matrix are both sufficiently small.
This paper is about a curious phenomenon. Suppose we have a data matrix,
which is the superposition of a low-rank component and a sparse component. Can
we recover each component individually? We prove that under some suitable
assumptions, it is possible to recover both the low-rank and the sparse
components exactly by solving a very convenient convex program called Principal
Component Pursuit; among all feasible decompositions, simply minimize a
weighted combination of the nuclear norm and of the L1 norm.
This paper has been withdrawn due to a critical error near equation (71).
This error causes the entire argument of the paper to collapse.
Emmanuel Candes of Stanford discovered the error, and has suggested a correct
analysis, which will be reported in a separate publication.