A Width-growth Model with Subnetwork Nodes and Refinement Structure for Representation Learning and Image Classification
Wandong Zhang, Q. M. Jonathan Wu, Yimin Yang, Thangarajah Akilan, Hui Zhang
Abstract
This article presents a new supervised multilayer subnetwork-based feature refinement and classification model for representation learning. The novelties of this algorithm are as follows: 1) different from most multilayer networks that go deeper with increased number of network layers, this work architects a model with wider subnetwork nodes; 2) the conventional classification methods adopt a separate search mechanism to derive a generalized feature space and to get the final cognition, but this work proposes a one-shot process to find the meaningful latent space and recognize the objects; and 3) the traditional feature representation and image classification approaches apply a unimodal feature coding, which suffers from lack of global knowledge. This work overcomes the pitfall through multimodal fusion that fuses various feature sources into one superstate encoding to achieve higher performance. A cross-domain experimental study on camera identification and image classification shows that the proposed method achieves superior performance compared to the existing models.