A Framework of Joint Low-Rank and Sparse Regression for Image Memorability Prediction

Image memorability is to measure the degree to which an image is remembered. Generally image memorability prediction involves two steps: feature representation and prediction. Most previous work just focused on addressing the first step by investigating the factors of making an image memorable. They not only lack the use of a learning mechanism in feature representation, but also often neglect the second step. In this paper, we first propose a joint low-rank and sparse regression (JLRSR) framework to address this problem. JLRSR aims to jointly learn: 1) a low-rank projection matrix that enables us to decompose the original data into a component part and an error part and 2) a sparse regression coefficient vector for image memorability prediction. The projection matrix and the regression coefficients are bound by a sparse constraint to make our approach invariant to training samples. Moreover, a graph regularizer is constructed to improve the generalization performance and prevent overfitting. We then extend JLRSR to a multi-view version called Mv-JLRSR by imposing the block-wise constraint to ensure the group effect and the view correlation constraint to eliminate the heterogeneity among views. Experiment results validate the effectiveness of our proposed approaches.