Hierarchical kernel stick-breaking process for multi-task image analysis

Authors:
Qi An;Chunping Wang;Ivo Shterev;Eric Wang;Lawrence Carin;David B. Dunson
Affiliations:
Duke University, Durham, NC;Duke University, Durham, NC;Duke University, Durham, NC;Duke University, Durham, NC;Duke University, Durham, NC;Duke University, Durham, NC
Venue:
Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Machine learning
Year:
2008

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Abstract

The kernel stick-breaking process (KSBP) is employed to segment general imagery, imposing the condition that patches (small blocks of pixels) that are spatially proximate are more likely to be associated with the same cluster (segment). The number of clusters is not set a priori and is inferred from the hierarchical Bayesian model. Further, KSBP is integrated with a shared Dirichlet process prior to simultaneously model multiple images, inferring their inter-relationships. This latter application may be useful for sorting and learning relationships between multiple images. The Bayesian inference algorithm is based on a hybrid of variational Bayesian analysis and local sampling. In addition to providing details on the model and associated inference framework, example results are presented for several image-analysis problems.