Fwd: Wednesday seminar at Sharif

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From: Soraya Panahi <sor...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:16 AM
Subject: Wednesday seminar at Sharif
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Cc: Mehrdad Mirshams Shahshahani <mshahs...@gmail.com>

Hello everybody,

The speaker for this week is Kimia Tajik. She will give a lecture about "MRF Optimization via Dual Decomposition: Message-Passing Revisited". You can find the abstract of this lecture in the following.
The seminar will be held at 3 p.m. at the MIVLab.


Bests,
Soraya Panahi

abstract:

A new message-passing scheme for MRF optimization

is proposed in this paper. This scheme inherits better

theoretical properties than all other state-of-the-art 

message passing methods and in practice performs equally

well/outperforms them. It is based on the very powerful

technique of Dual Decomposition and leads to an 

elegant and general framework for understanding/designing

message-passing algorithms that can provide new insights

into existing techniques. Promising experimental results

and comparisons with the state of the art demonstrate

the extreme theoretical and practical potentials of our approach.