A homotopy continuation method for parameter estimation in MRF models and image restoration

Abstract

In this paper, we present an alternate approach to estimate the parameters of a Markov random field (MRF) model for images using the concepts of homotopy continuation method. We also develop a joint parameter estimation and image restoration scheme where we have used a fairly general model involving the line fields and tested on a real image. Simulation results using gray level images are presented.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>