[(Markov Random Fields for Vision and Image Processing )] [Author: Andrew Blake] [Aug-2011]

by Andrew Blake

This volume demonstrates the power of the Markov random field (MRF) in vision, treating the MRF both as a tool for modeling image data and, utilizing recently developed algorithms, as a means of making inferences about images. These inferences concern underlying image and scene structure as well as solutions to such problems as image reconstruction, image segmentation, 3D vision, and object labeling. It offers key findings and state-of-the-art research on both algorithms and applications. After an introduction to the fundamental concepts used in MRFs, the book reviews some of the main algorithms for performing inference with MRFs; presents successful applications of MRFs, including segmentation, super-resolution, and image restoration, along with a comparison of various optimization methods; discusses advanced algorithmic topics; addresses limitations of the strong locality assumptions in the MRFs discussed in earlier chapters; and showcases applications that use MRFs in more complex ways, as components in bigger systems or with multiterm energy functions. The book will be an essential guide to current research on these powerful mathematical tools.

Genres: Computer Science

Hardcover

First published July 22, 2011

About the author

Andrew Blake is the author of 2 books, Sick World Part I: Awakening and Sick World Part II: Redemption.
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Both books are available in English and Greek language

Andrew Blake dwells where the light flickers and shadows take on a life of their own. To him, the human mind is nothing but a labyrinth without exit, riddled with dark corners and uncharted instincts. His prose is born at the threshold of reason—where motives blur like mist and actions slip through the net of explanation; where morality bends, and violence becomes a distorted language of communication.

With an almost surgical curiosity for the pathology of crime, Blake does not merely describe evil; he forces the reader to look it in the eye, until their gaze is irrevocably transfixed. His characters—predators and prey alike—navigate a world where logic is a luxury and horror is an inescapable presence.

Choosing the safety of anonymity, he willfully retreats from the spotlight, ceding the stage exclusively to his tormentors and their victims. He firmly believes that the most harrowing truths are always whispered in the dark—and that nothing is more terrifying than that which you cannot see, yet feel persistently watching you.

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