Multi-dimensional weighted deep subspace clustering with feature classification

Deep subspace clustering (DSC) methods based on deep autoencoder (DAE) and self-expression layers have achieved impressive performance. However, traditional DSC method often loses useful information in the feature extraction of DAE, leading to incomplete learning of the self-expression coefficient matrix. Besides, existing deep subspace clustering methods always extract feature information from a single dimension, ignoring the potential information that may exist in the self-expression coefficient matrix across multiple dimensions. In this paper, we propose a novel method called multi-dimensional weighted deep subspace clustering based on feature classification (MWDSC). Specifically, we use the multivariate feature classification module (MFC) to learn the potential information of multiple local feature matrix for local pre-clustering. To further improve the clustering performance, we propose a self-flip weighted fusion strategy (SWF). The SWF strategy obtains a self-expression coefficient matrix with rich features through self-flipping weighting, thereby aiding in achieving global optimal solutions. Extensive experiments conducted on five benchmark datasets validate the superiority and effectiveness of our proposed method over other state-of-the-art approaches. © 2024