CRF Toolbox Updated

I updated the code for my Graphical Models / Conditional Random Fields toolbox This is a Matlab toolbox, though almost all the real work is done in compiled C++ for efficiency. The main improvements are:

• Lots of bugfixes.
• Various small improvements in speed.
• A unified CRF training interface to make things easier for those not training on images
• Binaries are now provided for Linux as well as OS X.
• The code for inference and learning using TRW is now multithreaded, using openmp.
• Switched to using a newer version of Eigen

There is also far more detailed examples, including a full tutorial of how to train a CRF to do “semantic segmentation” on the Stanford Backgrounds dataset. Just using simple color, position, and Histogram of Gradient features, the error rates are 23%, which appear to be state of the art (and better than previous CRF based approaches.) It takes about 90 minutes to train on my 8-core machine, and processes new frames in a little over a second each.

For fun, I also ran this model on a video of someone driving from Alexandria into Georgetown. You can see that the results are far from perfect but are reasonably good. (Notice it successfully distinguishes trees and grass at 0:12)

I’m keen to have others use the code (what with the hundreds of hours spent writing it), so please send email if you have any issues.

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