Mixtures of Conditional Gaussian Scale Mixtures Applied to Multiscale Image Representations

Lucas Theis, Reshad Hosseini and Matthias Bethge

PLOS ONE, 2012, vol. 7, issue 7, 1-8

Abstract: We present a probabilistic model for natural images that is based on mixtures of Gaussian scale mixtures and a simple multiscale representation. We show that it is able to generate images with interesting higher-order correlations when trained on natural images or samples from an occlusion-based model. More importantly, our multiscale model allows for a principled evaluation. While it is easy to generate visually appealing images, we demonstrate that our model also yields the best performance reported to date when evaluated with respect to the cross-entropy rate, a measure tightly linked to the average log-likelihood. The ability to quantitatively evaluate our model differentiates it from other multiscale models, for which evaluation of these kinds of measures is usually intractable.

Date: 2012
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