Bayesian Approach to Image Interpretation / Edition 1

by Sunil K. Kopparapu, Uday B. Desai

Overview

Bayesian Approach to Image Interpretation will interest anyone working in image interpretation. It is complete in itself and includes background material. This makes it useful for a novice as well as for an expert. It reviews some of the existing probabilistic methods for image interpretation and presents some new results. Additionally, there is extensive bibliography covering references in varied areas.
For a researcher in this field, the material on synergistic integration of segmentation and interpretation modules and the Bayesian approach to image interpretation will be beneficial.
For a practicing engineer, the procedure for generating knowledge base, selecting initial temperature for the simulated annealing algorithm, and some implementation issues will be valuable.
New ideas introduced in the book include:

• New approach to image interpretation using synergism between the segmentation and the interpretation modules.
• A new segmentation algorithm based on multiresolution analysis.
• Novel use of the Bayesian networks (causal networks) for image interpretation.
• Emphasis on making the interpretation approach less dependent on the knowledge base and hence more reliable by modeling the knowledge base in a probabilistic framework.
Useful in both the academic and industrial research worlds, Bayesian Approach to Image Interpretation may also be used as a textbook for a semester course in computer vision or pattern recognition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792373728
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	07/31/2001
Series:	The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science , #616
Edition description:	2001
Pages:	127
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.01(d)

Table of Contents

Overview.- Background.- MRF Framework For Image Interpretation.- Bayesian Net Approach to Image Interpretation.- Joint Segmentation and Image Interpretation.- Conclusions.

Editorial Reviews

Writing for students and researchers in the field, Kopparapu (research and development for a private company in Bangalore, India) and Desai (electrical engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay) present a description and up-to-date treatment of image interpretation. The initial chapters describe the state of research, Markov random fields, their application to computer vision, the concept of cliques, and Bayesian network image interpretation. The authors then propose a new approach that applies synergism between the process of segmentation and interpretation in a multi-resolution framework and presents a joint segmentation and image interpretation algorithm. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)