Abstract— We develop a general framework for MAP estimation in discrete and Gaussian graphical models using Lagrangian relaxation techniques. The key idea is to reformulate an in...
Jason K. Johnson, Dmitry M. Malioutov, Alan S. Wil...
This paper addresses the construction of a novel efficient rotation-invariant texture retrieval method that is based on the alignment in angle of signatures obtained via a steerabl...
George Tzagkarakis, Baltasar Beferull-Lozano, Pana...
In recent years Bayes Least Squares - Gaussian scale mixtures (BLS-GSM) has emerged as one of the most powerful methods for image restoration. Its strength relies on providing a si...
Jose A. Guerrero-Colon, Luis Mancera, Javier Porti...
Discriminative methods for visual object category recognition are typically non-probabilistic, predicting class labels but not directly providing an estimate of uncertainty. Gauss...
Ashish Kapoor, Kristen Grauman, Raquel Urtasun, Tr...
This paper investigates a Bayesian model and a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm for gene factor analysis. Each sample in the dataset is decomposed as a linear combination...
Cecile Bazot, Nicolas Dobigeon, Jean-Yves Tournere...