# Cross-label Suppression: A Discriminative and Fast Dictionary Learning with Group Regularization

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a fast, discriminative dictionary learning method with cross-label suppression and group regularization, improving image classification accuracy and efficiency across various datasets.

## Contribution

It proposes a novel dictionary learning approach that enhances class discrimination and preserves label properties without relying on sparse coding norms, leading to faster computation.

## Key findings

- Outperforms recent dictionary algorithms in accuracy.
- Achieves higher computational efficiency.
- Effective across diverse image classification tasks.

## Abstract

This paper addresses image classification through learning a compact and discriminative dictionary efficiently. Given a structured dictionary with each atom (columns in the dictionary matrix) related to some label, we propose cross-label suppression constraint to enlarge the difference among representations for different classes. Meanwhile, we introduce group regularization to enforce representations to preserve label properties of original samples, meaning the representations for the same class are encouraged to be similar. Upon the cross-label suppression, we don't resort to frequently-used $\ell_0$-norm or $\ell_1$-norm for coding, and obtain computational efficiency without losing the discriminative power for categorization. Moreover, two simple classification schemes are also developed to take full advantage of the learnt dictionary. Extensive experiments on six data sets including face recognition, object categorization, scene classification, texture recognition and sport action categorization are conducted, and the results show that the proposed approach can outperform lots of recently presented dictionary algorithms on both recognition accuracy and computational efficiency.