Image Textures and Gibbs Random Fields

Download or read book Image Textures and Gibbs Random Fields written by Georgiĭ Lʹvovich Gimelʹfarb and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents techniques for describing image textures. Contrary to the usual practice of embedding the images to known modelling frameworks borrowed from statistical physics or other domains, this book deduces the Gibbs models from basic image features and tailors the modelling framework to the images. This approach results in more general Gibbs models than can be either Markovian or non-Markovian and possess arbitrary interaction structures and strengths. The book presents computationally feasible algorithms for parameter estimation and image simulation and demonstrates their abilities and limitations by numerous experimental results.