Minimum Description Length Shape and Appearance Models |
Hans Henrik Thodberg
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| Abstract | The Minimum Description Length (MDL) approach to shape modelling is reviewed. It solves the point correspondence problem of selecting points on shapes defined as curves so that the points correspond across a data set. An efficient numerical implementation is presented and made available as open source Matlab code. The problems with the early MDL approaches are discussed. Finally the MDL approach is extended to an MDL Appearance Model, which is proposed as a means to perform unsupervised image segmentation. |
| Keywords | Shape Modelling, Minimum Description Length, Appearance Models, Point Correspondence Problem, Unsupervised Vision, Image Segmentation |
| Type | Technical report |
| Year | 2003 pp. 12 |
| Publisher | Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, DTU |
| Address | Richard Petersens Plads, Building 321, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby |
| IMM no. | IMM-TECHNICAL REPORT-2003-01 |
| Electronic version(s) | [pdf] |
| BibTeX data | [bibtex] |
| IMM Group(s) | Image Analysis & Computer Graphics |