Title
A Spin Glass Model Of A Markov Random Field
Abstract
This paper presents a novel algorithm for robust object recognition. We propose to model the visual appearance of objects via probability density functions. The algorithm consists of a fully connected Markov random field with energy function derived from results of statistical physics of spin glasses. Markov random fields and spin glass energy functions are combined together via nonlinear kernel functions; we call the model Spin Glass-Markov Random Field. Full connectivity enables to take into account the global appearance of the object, and its specific local characteristics at the same time, resulting in robustness to noise, occlusions, and cluttered background. We show with theoretical analysis and experiments that this new model is competitive with state-of-the-art algorithms. (C) 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1002/ima.20086
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IMAGING SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY
Keywords
Field
DocType
object recognition, Markov random fields, kernel methods, spin glasses
Computer science,Markov random field,Artificial intelligence,Random function,Statistical physics,Computer vision,Combinatorics,Random field,Markov property,Markov model,Markov chain,Variable-order Markov model,Markov kernel
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
16
5
0899-9457
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
17
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
B. Caputo11405.57