“…texture modeling and analysis, Lorette et al 2000, optical flow estimation, Heitz and Bouthemy 1993;Li and Huttenlocher 2008, image restoration and denoising, Chen and Tang 2007;Geman and Geman 1984) as well as decision problems (e.g. image segmentation, Collet and Murtagh 2004;Salzenstein and Collet 2006;Crivelli et al 2006;Benboudjema and Pieczynski 2007;Blanchet andForbes 2008, motion detection, Benedek et al 2007;Bouthemy and Lalande 1993, edge detection, Wu and Chung 2007, structural change detection, Kasetkasem and Varshney 2002. Our motivation have been to exploit the power of mixed-state MRF's for simultaneous decisionestimation problems.…”