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SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
Standard methods for maximum likelihood parameter estimation in latent variable models rely on the Expectation-Maximization algorithm and its Monte Carlo variants. Our approach is ...
CSDA
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
We propose a simulation-based method for calculating maximum likelihood estimators in latent variable models. The proposed method integrates a recently developed sampling strategy...
ECML
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
Abstract. In this paper we consider latent variable models and introduce a new U-likelihood concept for estimating the distribution over hidden variables. One can derive an estimat...
CVPR
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2007
IEEE
In this paper, we present a probabilistic formulation of kernel-based tracking methods based upon maximum likelihood estimation. To this end, we view the coordinates for the pixel...
ICML
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
We present a new approach to estimating mixture models based on a new inference principle we have proposed: the latent maximum entropy principle (LME). LME is different both from ...