Color Image Segmentation Using a Gaussian Mixture Model and a Mean Field Annealing EM Algorithm

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E86-D, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2240-2248

  Park, Jong Hyun ^a   Cho, Wan Hyun ^b   Park, Soon Young ^c  

^a Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

^b Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^c Mokpo National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Color image segmentation; Deterministic annealing EM; Gaussian mixture model; Log likelihood function; Markov random field; Mean field theory

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANNEALING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; VECTORS;

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0242494302     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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