In recent years Bayesian methods have become widespread in many domains including computer vision, signal processing, information retrieval and genome data analysis. The availability of fast computers allows the required computations to be performed in reasonable time, and thereby makes the benefits of a Bayesian treatment accessible to an ever broadening range of applications. In this tutorial...

The processing of facial images has received considerable attention by computer vision researchers because of the broad range of potential applications for systems that are able to encode and interpret facial images. Especially, reliable facial feature detection and tracking in an image sequence are still challenging problems. In this paper, we propose an extension of the RVM (relevance vector ...

This paper presents a general methodology for high-dimensional pattern regression on medical images via machine learning techniques. Compared with pattern classification studies, pattern regression considers the problem of estimating continuous rather than categorical variables, and can be more challenging. It is also clinically important, since it can be used to estimate disease stage and pred...

We present a novel algorithm for efficient learning and feature selection in high-dimensional regression problems. We arrive at this model through a modification of the standard regression model, enabling us to derive a probabilistic version of the well-known statistical regression technique of backfitting. Using the expectation-maximization algorithm, along with variational approximation metho...