“…Markov Random Fields (MRFs) have been introduced about two decades ago as a tool for solving visual perception problems (Wang et al, 2013). One important type of MRFs is the Gaussian Markov Random Fields (GMRF) which is among texture analysis methods that has been proved to demonstrate excellent performance in characterizing textures in 2D images, and are then employed for texture classification (Chellappa and Chatterjee, 1985;Dharmagunawardhana et al, 2016) and segmentation (Dharmagunawardhana et al, 2014;Manjunath and Chellappa, 1991;Mahmoodi and Gunn, 2011;Xia et al, 2006). GMRF model parameters can capture the essential structures of texture, and it has been a popular choice for modelling textures (Tuceryan and Jain, 1993).…”