Title
Efficient Piecewise Learning For Conditional Random Fields
Abstract
Conditional Random Field models have proved effective for several low-level computer vision problems. Inference in these models involves solving a combinatorial optimization problem, with methods such as graph cuts, belief propagation. Although several methods have been proposed to learn the model parameters from training data, they suffer from various drawbacks. Learning these parameters involves computing the partition function, which is intractable. To overcome this, state-of-the-art structured learning methods frame the problem as one of large margin estimation. Iterative solutions have been proposed to solve the resulting convex optimization problem. Each iteration involves solving an inference problem over all the labels, which limits the efficiency of these structured methods. In this paper we present an efficient large margin piece-wise learning method which is widely applicable. We show how the resulting optimization problem can be reduced to an equivalent convex problem with a small number of constraints, and solve it using an efficient scheme. Our method is both memory and computationally efficient. We show results on publicly available standard datasets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/CVPR.2010.5540123
2010 IEEE CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION (CVPR)
Keywords
Field
DocType
random processes,graph cut,random variables,markov processes,labeling,structured learning,partition function,convex programming,convex optimization,learning artificial intelligence,optimization,optimization problem,parameter estimation,belief propagation,pixel,conditional random fields,training data,computational modeling,computer vision,conditional random field
Conditional random field,Cut,Mathematical optimization,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Structured prediction,Artificial intelligence,Estimation theory,Convex optimization,Optimization problem,Piecewise,Belief propagation
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2010
1
1063-6919
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
16
0.69
22
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Karteek Alahari192240.31
Chris Russell2113250.95
Philip H. S. Torr39140636.18