Abstract

Abstract In this paper, the Gibbs-Markov approach is extended to integration of observations provided by virtual sensors and organized according to a hierarchical taxonomy. The proposed extension is applied to image restoration and segmentation. A model of coupled Gibbs-Markov random fields (GMRFs) is presented, which involves performing restoration and labeling at two abstraction levels, i.e., the image (pixel) level and the region level. The maximum a posteriori (MAP) approach usually applied as an estimation criterion for single-level GMRFs is shown to be a special case of the most probable explanation (MPE) criterion, which is valid for multilevel GMRFs. A stochastic distributed optimization algorithm is used to reach the solution.

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