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A Latent-Variable Lattice Model

Machine Learning 2016-06-09 v7 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Machine Learning

Abstract

Markov random field (MRF) learning is intractable, and its approximation algorithms are computationally expensive. We target a small subset of MRF that is used frequently in computer vision. We characterize this subset with three concepts: Lattice, Homogeneity, and Inertia; and design a non-markov model as an alternative. Our goal is robust learning from small datasets. Our learning algorithm uses vector quantization and, at time complexity O(U log U) for a dataset of U pixels, is much faster than that of general-purpose MRF.

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@article{arxiv.1512.07587,
  title  = {A Latent-Variable Lattice Model},
  author = {Rajasekaran Masatran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.07587},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

6 pages, with 4 figures, 8 algorithms, and 1 table

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