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This paper advocates the use of multi-coloured polygonal Markov fields for model-based image segmentation. The formal construction of consistent multi-coloured polygonal Markov fields by Arak–Clifford–Surgailis and its dynamic representation are specialised and adapted to our context. We then formulate image segmentation as a statistical estimation problem for a Gibbsian modification of an underlying polygonal Markov field, and discuss the choice of Hamiltonian. Monte Carlo techniques, including novel Gibbs updates for the Arak model, to estimate the model parameters and find an optimal partition of the image are developed. The approach is applied to image data, the first published application of polygonal Markov fields to segmentation problems in the mathematical literature.
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Work carried out under project PNA4.3 ‘Stochastic Geometry’. This research was supported by the EC 6th Framework Programme Priority 2 Information Society Technology Network of Excellence MUSCLE (Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning; FP6-507752), and partially by the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) and by the Polish Minister of Scientific Research and Information Technology, grant 1 P03A 018 28 (2005-2007) [the third author].
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Kluszczyński, R., van Lieshout, M.N.M. & Schreiber, T. Image segmentation by polygonal Markov Fields. AISM 59, 465–486 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10463-006-0062-8
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