  The clustering methods have recently absorbed even-increasing attention in
learning and vision. Deep clustering combines embedding and clustering together
to obtain optimal embedding subspace for clustering, which can be more
effective compared with conventional clustering methods. In this paper, we
propose a joint learning framework for discriminative embedding and spectral
clustering. We first devise a dual autoencoder network, which enforces the
reconstruction constraint for the latent representations and their noisy
versions, to embed the inputs into a latent space for clustering. As such the
learned latent representations can be more robust to noise. Then the mutual
information estimation is utilized to provide more discriminative information
from the inputs. Furthermore, a deep spectral clustering method is applied to
embed the latent representations into the eigenspace and subsequently clusters
them, which can fully exploit the relationship between inputs to achieve
optimal clustering results. Experimental results on benchmark datasets show
that our method can significantly outperform state-of-the-art clustering
approaches.
