Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 23 (NIPS 2010)
Dahua Lin, Eric Grimson, John Fisher
We present a novel method for constructing dependent Dirichlet processes. The approach exploits the intrinsic relationship between Dirichlet and Poisson pro- cesses in order to create a Markov chain of Dirichlet processes suitable for use as a prior over evolving mixture models. The method allows for the creation, re- moval, and location variation of component models over time while maintaining the property that the random measures are marginally DP distributed. Addition- ally, we derive a Gibbs sampling algorithm for model inference and test it on both synthetic and real data. Empirical results demonstrate that the approach is effec- tive in estimating dynamically varying mixture models.