{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"The Multi-Feature Information Bottleneck with Application to Unsupervised Image Categorization","authors":[{"name":"Zhengzheng Lou","slug":"zhengzheng-lou","given":"Zhengzheng","family":"Lou","affiliation":""},{"name":"Yangdong Ye","slug":"yangdong-ye","given":"Yangdong","family":"Ye","affiliation":""},{"name":"Xiaoqiang Yan","slug":"xiaoqiang-yan","given":"Xiaoqiang","family":"Yan","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"We present a novel unsupervised data analysis method, Multi-feature Information Bottleneck (MfIB), which is an extension of the Information Bottleneck (IB). In comparison with the original IB, the proposed MfIB method can analyze the data simultaneously from multiple feature variables, which characterize the data from multiple cues. To verify the effectiveness of MfIB, we apply the corresponding MfIB algorithm to unsupervised image categorization. In our experiments, by taking into account multiple types of features, such as local shape, color and texture, the MfIB algorithm is found to be consistently superior to the original IB algorithm which takes only one source of features into consideration. Besides, the performance of MfIB algorithm is also superior to the state-of-the-art unsupervised image categorization methods.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/225","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/0225.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/225.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/bibtex/225","volume":{"slug":"2013","title":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2013","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/","year":2013,"location":"Beijing, China","dates":"3–9 August 2013","editors":"Francesca Rossi","isbn":"978-1-57735-633-2","publisher":"AAAI Press / International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":null,"track":"","number":225,"pages":{"first":1508,"last":1514},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}