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Learning Discriminative Markov Random Field Models for Image Interpretation

Filip Korč
Department of Photogrammetry
University of Bonn
October, 2009

Image interpretation can be formulated as a problem of energy minimization, where the problem can be viewed as computing maximum a posteriori configuration of a Markov random field. Recently, number of algorithms have proven to be efficient in minimizing such energies.
However, the problem of adapting energy function of a given form to a particular problem or, in other words, the problem of learning parameters of the corresponding Markov random field is widely viewed as intractable.
In our work, we study Markov random field models, inspired by work of Kumar and Hebert, and apply these models in discriminative framework to the problem of pixelwise class segmentation. In particular, we explore how the problem of parameter learning can be approached by continuous methods of convex optimization.


References

[1] Korč, F. & Förstner, W.
Approximate Parameter Learning in Conditional Random Fields: An Empirical Investigation Rigoll, G. (ed.). Pattern Recognition. Springer, DAGM 2008(5096), pp. 11-20
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[2] Korč, F. & Förstner, W.
Interpreting Terrestrial Images of Urban Scenes Using Discriminative Random Fields Proc. of the 21st Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) 2008
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[3] Korč, F. & Förstner, W.
Finding Optimal Non-Overlapping Subset of Extracted Image Objects Proc. of the 12th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA) 2008
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