Robust Student's-t mixture modelling via Markov random field and its application in image segmentation Online publication date: Tue, 24-Jul-2018
by Taisong Xiong; Yuanyuan Huang; Xin Luo; Jing Zeng
International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN), Vol. 11, No. 4, 2018
Abstract: Finite mixture model has been widely applied to image segmentation. However, the technique does not consider the spatial information in images that leads to unsatisfactory results for image segmentation. To address this problem, in this paper, a Student's-t mixture model is proposed for image segmentation based on Markov random field (MRF). There are three advantages in the proposed model. Firstly, a representation of spatial relationships among pixels is given. Secondly, Student's t-distribution is chosen to be the component function of the proposed model instead of the Gaussian distribution because of its heavy tail. Thirdly, to deduce the parameters of the proposed model, a gradient descent method is applied during the inference process. Comprehensive experiments are carried out on greyscale noisy images and real-world colour images. The experimental results have shown the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed model.
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