Boundary detection through dynamic polygons
by Antonio Pievatolo (Milano, Italia) and Peter Green (Bristol, UK).
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, B, 60, 609-626 (1998).
A method for the Bayesian restoration of noisy binary images portraying an
object with constant greylevel on a background is presented. The restoration,
performed by fitting a polygon with any number of sides to the
object outline, is driven by a new probabilistic model for the
generation of polygons in a compact subset of R^2, which is used
as a prior distribution for the polygon. The simulation from the prior
and the calculation of the a posteriori mean of greylevels are
carried out through reversible jump MCMC computation. Two examples
of restoration of synthetic images are presented.
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