October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
1159 pages
26h 10m
English
So far, we have covered directed acyclic graphs in the area of probabilistic graph models, including every aspect of representation, inference, and learning. When the graphs are undirected, they are known as Markov networks (MN) or Markov random field (MRF). We will discuss some aspects of Markov networks in this section covering areas of representation, inference, and learning, as before. Markov networks or MRF are very popular in various areas of computer vision such as segmentation, de-noising, stereo, recognition, and so on. For further reading, see (References [10]).
Even though a Markov network, like Bayesian networks, has undirected edges, it still has local interactions and distributions. ...