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- Title
VBI-MRF model for image segmentation.
- Authors
Xia, Yong; Li, Zhe
- Abstract
In statistical image segmentation, the distribution of pixel values is usually assumed to be Gaussian and the optimal result is believed to be the one that has maximum a posteriori (MAP) probability. In spite of its prevalence and computational efficiency, the Gaussian assumption, however, is not always strictly followed, and hence may lead to less accurate results. Although the variational Bayes inference (VBI), in which statistical model parameters are also assumed to be random variables, has been widely used, it can hardly handle the spatial information embedded in pixels. In this paper, we incorporate spatial smoothness constraints on pixels labels interpreted by the Markov random field (MRF) model into the VBI process, and thus propose a novel statistical model called VBI-MRF for image segmentation. We evaluated our algorithm against the variational expectation-maximization (VEM) algorithm and the hidden Markov random field (HMRF) model and MAP-MRF model based algorithms on both noise-corrupted synthetic images and mosaics of natural texture. Our pilot results suggest that the proposed algorithm can segment images more accurately than other three methods and is capable of producing robust image segmentation.
- Subjects
IMAGE segmentation; DIGITAL image processing; IMAGE analysis; MARKOV random fields; EXPECTATION-maximization algorithms; IMAGE processing
- Publication
Multimedia Tools & Applications, 2018, Vol 77, Issue 11, p13343
- ISSN
1380-7501
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11042-017-4951-z