Title
Bayesian image classification using Markov random fields
Abstract
In this paper, we present three optimisation techniques, Deterministic Pseudo-Annealing (DPA), Game Strategy Approach (GSA), and Modified Metropolis Dynamics (MMD), in order to carry out image classification using a Markov random field model. For the first approach (DPA), the a posteriori probability of a tentative labelling is generalised to a continuous labelling. The merit function thus defined has the same maxima under constraints yielding probability vectors. Changing these constraints convexifies the merit function. The algorithm solves this unambiguous maximisation problem, and then tracks down the solution while the original constraints are restored yielding a good, even if suboptimal, solution to the original labelling assignment problem. In the second method (GSA), the maximisation problem of the a posteriori probability of the labelling is solved by an optimisation algorithm based on game theory. A non-cooperative n-person game with pure strategies is designed such that the set of Nash equilibrium points of the game is identical to the set of local maxima of the a posteriori probability of the labelling. The algorithm converges to a Nash equilibrium. The third method (MMD) is a modified version of the Metropolis algorithm: at each iteration the new state is chosen randomly, but the decision to accept it is purely deterministic. This is also a suboptimal technique but it is much faster than stochastic relaxation. These three methods have been implemented on a Connection Machine CM2. Experimental results are compared to those obtained by the Metropolis algorithm, the Gibbs sampler and ICM (Iterated Conditional Mode).
Year
DOI
Venue
1996
10.1016/0262-8856(95)01072-6
Image and Vision Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Bayesian image classification,Markov random fields,Optimisation
Metropolis–Hastings algorithm,Markov random field,Artificial intelligence,Gibbs sampling,Mathematical optimization,Random field,Pattern recognition,Markov model,Markov chain,Algorithm,Assignment problem,Nash equilibrium,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
4
0262-8856
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
64
4.47
12
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marc Berthod1429163.29
Zoltan Kato226528.28
Shan Yu3644.47
Josiane Zerubia42032232.91