Markov random field energy minimization via iterated cross entropy with partition strategy

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Wu, Jue ^a   Chung, Albert C S ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cross entropy; Energy minimization; Image segmentation; Markov random fields; MRF solvers

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION;

BELIEF PROPAGATION (BP); CROSS ENTROPY; ENERGY MINIMIZATION; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 34547523069     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.366715     Document Type: Conference Paper

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