Joint M-Best-Diverse Solutions for Energy Minimization

Bogdan Savchynskyy
(U. of Dresden, Germany)

Abstract:

We make an overview of recent results in the problem of finding M diverse low energy labelings for energy minimization in undirected graphical models. Our approach to infer diverse M solutions jointly turned out to include as its special cases such standard techniques as determinant point processes and the sequential DivMBest method of Batra et al. In spite of the generality and high computational complexity of the framework in general, we will show several classes of problems, which can be solved efficiently. These include, but not limited to diverse solutions for submodular energies. In particular, we will show a close relation between our diversity method and parametric submodular minimization/parametric max-flow techniques.