Hidden Markov Fields (HMF) are widely applicable to various problems of image processing. In such models, the hidden process of interest X is a Markov field, which must be estimated from its observable noisy version Y. The success of HMF is due mainly to the fact that X remains Markov conditionally on the observed process, which facilitates different processing strategies such as Bayesian segme...

High-throughput technologies like tiling array and next-generation sequencing (NGS) generate continuous homogeneous segments or signal peaks in the genome that represent transcripts and transcript variants (transcript mapping and quantification), regions of deletion and amplification (copy number variation), or regions characterized by particular common features like chromatin state or DNA meth...

Hidden Markov model (HMM) is one of the popular techniques for story segmentation, where hidden Markov states represent the topics, and the emission distributions of n-gram language model (LM) are dependent on the states. Given a text document, a Viterbi decoder finds the hidden story sequence, with a change of topic indicating a story boundary. In this paper, we propose a discriminative approa...

Oslo in 1988. She is currently working as a researcher at the Norwegian Computing Center and has been involved in several projects concerning document image analysis and machine vision. Her research interests lie mainly within the various applications of statistical pattern recognition. Summary In this paper, we demonstrate that hidden Markov chains have a potential for use in diierent image an...

background: accurate brain tissue segmentation from magnetic resonance (mr) images is an important step in analysis of cerebral images. there are software packages which are used for brain segmentation. these packages usually contain a set of skull stripping, intensity non-uniformity (bias) correction and segmentation routines. thus, assessment of the quality of the segmented gray matter (gm), ...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t A challenge in building pervasive and smart spaces is to learn and recognize human activities of daily living (ADLs). In this paper, we address this problem and argue that in dealing with ADLs, it is beneficial to exploit both their typical duration patterns and inherent hierarchical structures. We exploit efficient duration modeling using the novel Coxian ...

In this paper, we present the region based hidden Markov random field model (RBHMRF), which encodes the characteristics of different brain regions into a probabilistic framework for brain MR image segmentation. The recently proposed TV+L model is used for region extraction. By utilizing different spatial characteristics in different brain regions, the RMHMRF model performs beyond the current st...

We consider hidden Markov models with an unknown number of regimes for the segmentation of the pixel intensities of digital images that consist of a small set of colours. New reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms to estimate both the dimension and the unknown parameters of the model are introduced. Parameters are updated by random walk Metropolis–Hastings moves, without updating t...

We present our framework for segmentation, 3D shape and motion estimation and recognition. We first present physics-based modeling techniques for segmentation and 3D shape and motion estimation based on single and multiple views as well as the integration of visual cues such as edges and optical flow. We then present extensions to address the reliable recognition of American Sign Language (ASL)...