Exact Inference of Hidden Markov Tree for Image Segmentation

Image segmentation methods that exploit multiscale information about images to be estimated have been extensively studied, typically using the Hidden Markov Tree (HMT) framework. we incorporate wavelet coefficients information of the original image in the form of Hidden Markov Tree model prior for the object segmentation. In this paper, we derive a generalized closed form inference scheme to exact determine the posterior likelihood at each iteration with definite number of iteration steps. Extensive experiments show that this method performs better than many competitive multiscale image segmentation methods.