Yi Ma

  1. Sparsity and Robustness in Face Recognition.

    Authors: John Wright, Arvind Ganesh, Yi Ma, Zihan Zhou, Allen Yang
    Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Abstract

    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.

  2. Underlay Cognitive Radio with Full or Partial Channel Quality Information.

    Authors: Yi Ma, Na Yi, Rahim Tafazolli
    Subjects: Information Theory
    Abstract

    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.

  3. A Review of Fast l1-Minimization Algorithms for Robust Face Recognition.

    Authors: Arvind Ganesh, Yi Ma, Zihan Zhou, S. Shankar Sastry, Allen Y. Yang
    Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Abstract

    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.

  4. Stable Principal Component Pursuit.

    Authors: John Wright, Yi Ma, Xiaodong Li, Zihan Zhou, Emmanuel Candes
    Subjects: Information Theory
    Abstract

    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.

  5. Dense Error Correction for Low-Rank Matrices via Principal Component Analysis.

    Authors: Emmanuel J. Candes, John Wright, Arvind Ganesh, Yi Ma, Xiaodong Li
    Subjects: Information Theory
    Abstract

    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.

  6. Robust Principal Component Analysis?.

    Authors: Emmanuel J. Candes, John Wright, Yi Ma, Xiaodong Li
    Subjects: Information Theory
    Abstract

    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.

  7. Robust Principal Component Analysis: Exact Recovery of Corrupted Low-Rank Matrices.

    Authors: John Wright, Arvind Ganesh, Shankar Rao, Yi Ma
    Subjects: Information Theory
    Abstract

    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.

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