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In this note we will discuss how image segmentation can be handled by using Bayesian learning and inference. In particular variational techniques relying on free energy minimization will be introduced. It will be shown how to embed a spatial diffusion process on segmentation labels within the Variational Bayes learning procedure so to enforce spatial constraints among labels.
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Boccignone, G., Ferraro, M., Napoletano, P. (2007). A Variational Bayes Approach to Image Segmentation. In: Mele, F., Ramella, G., Santillo, S., Ventriglia, F. (eds) Advances in Brain, Vision, and Artificial Intelligence. BVAI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4729. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75555-5_22
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