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Density Estimation Using Mixtures of Mixtures of Gaussians

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Density Estimation Using Mixtures of Mixtures of Gaussians
In this paper we present a new density estimation algorithm using mixtures of mixtures of Gaussians. The new algorithm overcomes the limitations of the popular Expectation Maximization algorithm. The paper first introduces a new model selection criterion called the Penalty-less Information Criterion, which is based on the Jensen-Shannon divergence. Mean-shift is used to automatically initialize the means and covariances of the Expectation Maximization in order to obtain better structure inference. Finally, a locally linear search is performed using the Penalty-less Information Criterion in order to infer the underlying density of the data. The validity of the algorithm is verified using real color images.
Wael Abd-Almageed, Larry S. Davis
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Type Conference
Year 2006
Where ECCV
Authors Wael Abd-Almageed, Larry S. Davis
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