Seminar series
Date
Thu, 03 Nov 2016
Time
14:00 -
15:00
Location
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, nr Didcot
Speaker
Dr Robert Luce
Organisation
EPFL Lausanne
We consider the problem of computing a nonnegative low rank factorization to a given nonnegative input matrix under the so-called "separabilty condition". This assumption makes this otherwise NP hard problem polynomial time solvable, and we will use first order optimization techniques to compute such a factorization. The optimization model use is based on sparse regression with a self-dictionary, in which the low rank constraint is relaxed to the minimization of an l1-norm objective function. We apply these techniques to endmember detection and classification in hyperspecral imaging data.