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Multi-Objective Matrix Normalization for Fine-grained Visual Recognition
Shaobo Min, Hantao Yao, Hongtao Xie, Zheng-Jun Zha, Yongdong Zhang
Bilinear pooling achieves great success in fine-grained visual recognition (FGVC). Recent methods have shown that the matrix power normalization can stabilize the second-order information in bilinear features, but some problems, e.g., redundant information and over-fitting, remain to be resolved. In this paper, we propose an efficient Multi-Objective Matrix Normalization (MOMN) method that can simultaneously normalize a bilinear representation in terms of square-root, low-rank, and sparsity. These three regularizers can not only stabilize the second-order information, but also compact the bilinear features and promote model generalization. In MOMN, a core challenge is how to jointly optimize three non-smooth regularizers of different convex properties. To this end, MOMN first formulates them into an augmented Lagrange formula with approximated regularizer constraints. Then, auxiliary variables are introduced to relax different constraints, which allow each regularizer to be solved alternately. Finally, several updating strategies based on gradient descent are designed to obtain consistent convergence and efficient implementation. Consequently, MOMN is implemented with only matrix multiplication, which is well-compatible with GPU acceleration, and the normalized bilinear features are stabilized and discriminative. Experiments on five public benchmarks for FGVC demonstrate that the proposed MOMN is superior to existing normalization-based methods in terms of both accuracy and efficiency. The code is available: https://github.com/mboboGO/MOMN.
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