Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2007
Abstract
We present a novel, semi-supervised approach to training discriminative random fields (DRFs) that efficiently exploits labeled and unlabeled training data to achieve improved accuracy in a variety of image processing tasks. We formulate DRF training as a form of MAP estimation that combines conditional loglikelihood on labeled data, given a data-dependent prior, with a conditional entropy regularizer defined on unlabeled data. Although the training objective is no longer concave, we develop an efficient local optimization procedure that produces classifiers that are more accurate than ones based on standard supervised DRF training. We then apply our semi-supervised approach to train DRFs to segment both synthetic and real data sets, and demonstrate significant improvements over supervised DRFs in each case.
Repository Citation
Lee, C.,
Wang, S.,
Jiao, F.,
Schuurmans, D.,
& Greiner, R.
(2007). Learning to Model Spatial Dependency: Semi-Supervised Discriminative Random Fields. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 793-800.
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Comments
This paper was presented at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, B.C., 2006.