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Large Scale Variational Bayesian Inference for Structured Scale Mixture Models

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2012-07-03 v1 Machine Learning Machine Learning

Abstract

Natural image statistics exhibit hierarchical dependencies across multiple scales. Representing such prior knowledge in non-factorial latent tree models can boost performance of image denoising, inpainting, deconvolution or reconstruction substantially, beyond standard factorial "sparse" methodology. We derive a large scale approximate Bayesian inference algorithm for linear models with non-factorial (latent tree-structured) scale mixture priors. Experimental results on a range of denoising and inpainting problems demonstrate substantially improved performance compared to MAP estimation or to inference with factorial priors.

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@article{arxiv.1206.6437,
  title  = {Large Scale Variational Bayesian Inference for Structured Scale Mixture Models},
  author = {Young Jun Ko and Matthias Seeger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.6437},
  year   = {2012}
}

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Appears in Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2012)

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