1.3

Useful MRF Models

The following introduces some useful MRF models for modeling image properties such as regions and textures. We are interested in their conditional and joint distributions, and the corresponding energy functions. They will be used in the subsequent chapters for deriving MAP-MRF vision models and for MRF parameter estimation.

• 1.3.1 Auto-Models
• 1.3.2 Multi-Level Logistic Model
• 1.3.3 The Smoothness Prior
• 1.3.4 Hierarchical GRF Model