A Bayesian framework for figure-ground interpretation

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 23: 24th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2010, NIPS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Froyen, Vicky ^a,b   Feldman, Jacob ^a   Singh, Manish ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERSECTIONS;

BAYESIAN FRAMEWORKS; BORDER OWNERSHIP; FIGURE-GROUND; GROUND SURFACES; NONLOCAL; SIMILAR PATTERN; SPATIALLY DISTRIBUTED PROCESS; T JUNCTIONS; VISUAL IMAGE; VISUAL-PROCESSING;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 85162020556     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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