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Joint Maximum Purity Forest with Application to Image Super-Resolution

30 Aug 2017arXiv:1708.09200archive 2025-07-28

Hailiang Li, Kin-Man Lam, Dong Li

In this paper, we propose a novel random-forest scheme, namely Joint Maximum Purity Forest (JMPF), for classification, clustering, and regression tasks. In the JMPF scheme, the original feature space is transformed into a compactly pre-clustered feature space, via a trained rotation matrix. The rotation matrix is obtained through an iterative quantization process, where the input data belonging to different classes are clustered to the respective vertices of the new feature space with maximum purity. In the new feature space, orthogonal hyperplanes, which are employed at the split-nodes of decision trees in random forests, can tackle the clustering problems effectively. We evaluated our proposed method on public benchmark datasets for regression and classification tasks, and experiments showed that JMPF remarkably outperforms other state-of-the-art random-forest-based approaches. Furthermore, we applied JMPF to image super-resolution, because the transformed, compact features are more discriminative to the clustering-regression scheme. Experiment results on several public benchmark datasets also showed that the JMPF-based image super-resolution scheme is consistently superior to recent state-of-the-art image super-resolution algorithms.

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ClusteringGeneral ClassificationImage Super-ResolutionQuantizationSuper-Resolutionregression

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Image Super-Resolution BSD100 - 4x upscaling JMPF+ PSNR 26.87 #56 of 71 Archive leaderboard report
Image Super-Resolution Set14 - 4x upscaling JMPF+ PSNR 27.37 #96 of 104 Archive leaderboard report

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