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In this paper, we propose a Markov random field (MRF) image segmentation model which aims at combining color and texture features. The theoretical framework relies on Bayesian estimation associated with combinatorial optimization (Simulated Annealing). The segmentation is obtained by classifying the pixels into different pixel classes. These classes are represented by multi-variate Gaussian distributions. Thus, the only hypothesis about the nature of the features is that an additive white noise model is suitable to describe the feature values belonging to a given class. Herein, we use the perceptually uniform CIE-L*u*v* color values as color features and a set of Gabor filters as texture features. We provide experimental results that illustrate the performance of our method on both synthetic and natural color images. Due to the local nature of our MRF model, the algorithm can be highly parallelized.
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Kato, Z., Pong, TC. (2001). A Markov Random Field Image Segmentation Model Using Combined Color and Texture Features. In: Skarbek, W. (eds) Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns. CAIP 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2124. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44692-3_66
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