title: Guest editors' introduction to the special section on probabilistic graphical models.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytecchnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA. qji@ecse.rpi.edu
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Ji
authors.forename: Jiebo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Dimitris
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Metaxas
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Torralba
authors.forename: Thomas S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Erik B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Sudderth