Title
Bayesian classification and active learning using lp-priors. Application to image segmentation
Abstract
In this paper we utilize Bayesian modeling and inference to learn a softmax classification model which performs Supervised Classification and Active Learning. For p <; 1, lp-priors are used to impose sparsity on the adaptive parameters. Using variational inference, all model parameters are estimated and the posterior probabilities of the classes given the samples are calculated. A relationship between the prior model used and the independent Gaussian prior model is provided. The posterior probabilities are used to classify new samples and to define two Active Learning methods to improve classifier performance: Minimum Probability and Maximum Entropy. In the experimental section the proposed Bayesian framework is applied to Image Segmentation problems on both synthetic and real datasets, showing higher accuracy than state-of-the-art approaches.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2014
Signal Processing Conference
belief networks,image classification,image segmentation,learning (artificial intelligence),maximum entropy methods,probability,Bayesian classification,active learning method,image segmentation problem,independent Gaussian prior model,maximum entropy,minimum probability,posterior probabilities,softmax classification model,supervised classification,variational inference
Field
DocType
Citations 
Active learning,Scale-space segmentation,Naive Bayes classifier,Pattern recognition,Segmentation-based object categorization,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Prior probability,Machine learning,Mathematics
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
10
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pablo Ruiz1379.59
Nicolas Perez de la Blanca231433.17
Rafael Molina31439103.16
Aggelos K. Katsaggelos43410340.41