Hi,
I'm working on applying singly-connected bayesian networks to tracking
people in computer vision, and I've come up against a bit of a problem. I
was wondering if anybody has some advice.
I have an observed node X with N parent nodes U_1, U_2, ... U_N. The
conditional probabilities p(X | U) are described by a noisy OR relation:
p(X|U) = F(U) (1 - prod_i (1 - delta(X, U)));
delta(X,U) = 1 if X=U, 0 otherwise
X and the U's are variables in 1,2,...d denoting the position of the
object. Therefore the noisy OR rule gives a possibility for the presence of
X if at least one of the U's is present there also. The relation ignores
noise,
and F(U) is a normalising constant to make the thing integrate over x to
unity.
This is a generalisation of the noisy OR relation in Pearl's book "Prob.
reasoning in intelligent systems", but the difference is the variables here
are d-dimensional whereas in the book they are boolean (2 - dimensional).
The problem I'm experiencing is normalisation of p(X|U) such that
integral_x p(X|U) dx = 1. In general it depends on the values of U_i. To
further complicate things, I'm actually doing this with continuous domain
variables and I need the analytic integral. This works if p(X|U) can be
decomposed into the U_i contributions, but the normalising factor is still a
joint function of all the U_i's.
Does anybody have any experience with this, or seen any related work?
Thanks for your help,
Jamie
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