A standard method for approximating averages in probabilistic models is to construct a Markov chain in the product space of the random variables with the desired equilibrium distr...
Markov random fields are designed to represent structured dependencies among large collections of random variables, and are well-suited to capture the structure of real-world sign...
Tanya Roosta, Martin J. Wainwright, Shankar S. Sas...
Maximum likelihood estimators are often of limited practical use due to the intensive computation they require. We propose a family of alternative estimators that maximize a stoch...
Composite likelihood methods provide a wide spectrum of computationally efficient techniques for statistical tasks such as parameter estimation and model selection. In this paper,...
Arthur Asuncion, Qiang Liu, Alexander T. Ihler, Pa...
Reliable facial expression recognition by machine is still a challenging task. We propose a framework to recognise various expressions by tracking facial features. Our method uses...