MIT AI Lab
tkapur@ai.mit.edu
Mean-Field Approximation
•Deterministic Approximation to GRF [Parisi84]
–the mean/expected value of a GRF is obtained as a solution to a set of consistency equations
•Update Equation is obtained using derivative of partition function with respect to the external field g. [Elfadel 93]
•Used in image reconstruction [Geiger, Yuille, Girosi 91]
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