Merging Belief Propagation and the Mean Field Approximation: A Free Energy Approach.
Erwin RieglerGunvor Elisabeth KirkelundCarles Navarro i ManchonMihai-Alin BadiuBernard H. FleuryPublished in: IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory (2013)
Keyphrases
- free energy
- belief propagation
- exact inference
- graphical models
- approximate inference
- message passing
- markov random field
- graph cuts
- loopy belief propagation
- stereo matching
- fixed point
- pairwise
- energy function
- bethe free energy
- energy minimization
- belief networks
- factor graphs
- conditional random fields
- partition function
- statistical physics
- generalized belief propagation
- post processing
- maximum a posteriori
- random variables
- higher order
- image processing
- neural network