MARKOV POINT PROCESSES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS - Hardcover

Van Lieshout, M. N. M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1860940714 ISBN 13: 9781860940712

Publisher: Imperial College Press, 2000

Synopsis

These days, an increasing amount of information can be obtained in graphical forms, such as weather maps, soil samples, locations of nests in a breeding colony, microscopical slices, satellite images, radar or medical scans and X-ray techniques. “High level” image analysis is concerned with the global interpretation of images, attempting to reduce it to a compact description of the salient features of the scene.This book takes a stochastic approach. It studies Markov object processes, showing that they form a flexible class of models for a range of problems involving the interpretation of spatial data. Applications can be found in statistical physics (under the name of “Gibbs processes”), environmental mapping of diseases, forestry, identification of ore structure in materials science, signal analysis, object recognition, robot vision, and interpretation of images from medical scans or confocal microscopy.

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Review

"The book is remarkable by the amount of the material covered and excellent readability ... It is highly recommended as the first comprehensive text that covers various concepts related to Markov point processes and typically scattered in the journal literature." Mathematical Reviews, 2001

Edition details

• Publisher: Imperial College Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1860940714
• ISBN 13: 9781860940712
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 184