Embedding gestalt laws in markov random fields

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1170-1187

  Zhu, Song Chun ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contour. A; Gestalt laws; Markov random field; Maximum entropy; Perceptual grouping; Shape modeling; Shape synthesis

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

GESTALT LAWS; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY LEARNING THEORY;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033220941     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.809110     Document Type: Article

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