Belief Propagation in Large, Highly Connected Graphs for 3D Part-Based Object Recognition

  • Authors:
  • Frank DiMaio;Jude Shavlik

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA;University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

  • Venue:
  • ICDM '06 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Data Mining
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We describe a part-based object-recognition framework, specialized to mining complex 3D objects from detailed 3D images. Objects are modeled as a collection of parts together with a pairwise potential function. An efficient inference algorithm -- based on belief propagation (BP) -- finds the optimal layout of parts, given some input image. We introduce AggBP, a message aggregation scheme for BP, in which groups of messages are approximated as a single message. For objects consisting of N parts, we reduce CPU time and memory requirements from O( N^2 ) to O(N). We apply AggBP on synthetic data as well as a real-world task identifying protein fragments in three-dimensional images. These experiments show that our improvements result in minimal loss in accuracy in significantly less time.