Topics: Economics and Personal Finances, Socioeconomic Class. 1  Richard Fry is a senior researcher focusing on economics and education at Pew Research Center. 2  Rakesh Kochhar is an associate director of research at Pew Research Center.
In the United States, the Census Bureau determines who is poor using an economic poverty measure, by calculating official poverty estimates using a set of dollar-value thresholds, or minimum amount of income needed to meet basic needs, that vary by family size and composition.
What are good parameters to tune to correctly learn good features? I was able to learn features that look like Gabor filters. I checked the representation for each patch (W*X) and it was not sparse but was able to reconstruct x (by W'WX). But the accuracy is still worse than handcrafted features (LBP,SIFT).