@string{icip="Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing"}
@InProceedings{Blaskovics-etal2009a,
  author =	 {Tamas Blaskovics and Kato, Zoltan and Ian Jermyn},
  title =	 {A {M}arkov Random Field Model for Extracting
                  Near-Circular Shapes},
  booktitle =	 icip,
  pages =	 {1073--1076},
  year =	 2009,
  address =	 {Cairo, Egypt},
  month =	 nov,
  organization = {IEEE},
  publisher =	 {IEEE},
  abstract =	 {We propose a binary Markov Random Field (MRF) model
                  that assigns high probability to regions in the
                  image domain consisting of an unknown number of
                  circles of a given radius. We construct the model by
                  discretizing the 'gas of circles' phase
                  field model in a principled way, thereby creating an
                  'equivalent' MRF. The behaviour of the
                  resulting MRF model is analyzed, and the performance
                  of the new model is demonstrated on various
                  synthetic images as well as on the problem of tree
                  crown detection in aerial images.},
  pdf =		 {papers/icip2009.pdf}
}