A new Bayesian approach to textured image segmentation: Turbo segmentation

We consider the problem of semi-supervised segmentation of textured images. In this paper, we propose a new Bayesian framework by modeling two-dimensional textured images as the concatenation of two one-dimensional hidden Markov autoregressive models for the lines and the columns, respectively. A new segmentation algorithm, which is similar to turbo decoding in the context of error-correcting codes, is obtained based on a factor graph approach. The proposed method estimates the unknown parameters using the Expectation- Maximization algorithm.