Hidden Markov Random Fields and Swarm Particles: A Winning Combination in Image Segmentation

Markov Random Fields in Image Segmentation

Cluster-Based Image Segmentation Using Fuzzy Markov Random Field

Image segmentation is an important task in image processing and computer vision which attract many researchers attention. There are a couple of information sets pixels in an image: statistical and structural information which refer to the feature value of pixel data and local correlation of pixel data, respectively. Markov random field (MRF) is a tool for modeling statistical and structural inf...

Hidden Markov Random Fields

A noninvertible function of a first order Markov process, or of a nearestneighbor Markov random field, is called a hidden Markov model. Hidden Markov models are generally not Markovian. In fact, they may have complex and long range interactions, which is largely the reason for their utility. Applications include signal and image processing, speech recognition, and biological modeling. We show t...

Parameter Estimation in Hidden Fuzzy Markov Random Fields and Image Segmentation

tion problem is to decide, from the observed image, in This paper proposes a new unsupervised fuzzy Bayesian which class each pixel lies. In the first case we speak of image segmentation method using a recent model using hidden fuzzy segmentation, and in the second case of hard segmenfuzzy Markov fields. The originality of this model is to use tation. As we can see, fuzzy and hard segmentations...

Double Markov random fields and Bayesian image segmentation

Markov random fields are used extensively in modelbased approaches to image segmentation and, under the Bayesian paradigm, are implemented through Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. In this paper, we describe a class of such models (the double Markov random field) for images composed of several textures, which we consider to be the natural hierarchical model for such a task. We show how s...