Title
SPM-BP: Sped-up PatchMatch Belief Propagation for Continuous MRFs
Abstract
Markov random fields are widely used to model many computer vision problems that can be cast in an energy minimization framework composed of unary and pairwise potentials. While computationally tractable discrete optimizers such as Graph Cuts and belief propagation (BP) exist for multi-label discrete problems, they still face prohibitively high computational challenges when the labels reside in a huge or very densely sampled space. Integrating key ideas from PatchMatch of effective particle propagation and resampling, PatchMatch belief propagation (PMBP) has been demonstrated to have good performance in addressing continuous labeling problems and runs orders of magnitude faster than Particle BP (PBP). However, the quality of the PMBP solution is tightly coupled with the local window size, over which the raw data cost is aggregated to mitigate ambiguity in the data constraint. This dependency heavily influences the overall complexity, increasing linearly with the window size. This paper proposes a novel algorithm called sped-up PMBP (SPM-BP) to tackle this critical computational bottleneck and speeds up PMBP by 50-100 times. The crux of SPM-BP is on unifying efficient filter-based cost aggregation and message passing with PatchMatch-based particle generation in a highly effective way. Though simple in its formulation, SPM-BP achieves superior performance for sub-pixel accurate stereo and optical-flow on benchmark datasets when compared with more complex and task-specific approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ICCV.2015.456
ICCV '15 Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Field
DocType
Volume
Cut,Pairwise comparison,Computer vision,Bottleneck,Random field,Computer science,Markov chain,Theoretical computer science,Artificial intelligence,Message passing,Energy minimization,Belief propagation
Conference
2015
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1550-5499
18
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.75
29
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yu Li148324.38
Dongbo Min270042.35
Michael S. Brown32122129.13
Minh N. Do41681133.55
Jiangbo Lu5100948.99