We describe a new variational lower-bound on the minimum energy configuration of a planar binary Markov Random Field (MRF). Our method is based on adding auxiliary nodes to every...
Julian Yarkony, Alexander T. Ihler, Charless C. Fo...
This paper introduces an approach for handling complex labelling problems driven by local constraints. The purpose is illustrated by two applications: detection of the road networ...
This paper introduces a novel solver, namely cross entropy (CE), into the MRF theory for medical image segmentation. The solver, which is based on the theory of rare event simulati...
Quadratic program relaxations are proposed as an alternative to linear program relaxations and tree reweighted belief propagation for the metric labeling or MAP estimation problem...