Abstract
Two dimensional random field models have been widely applied to various image processing problems. The sample images for a specific application are usually characterized by parameters of the model equations. The model parameters have been estimated by the least squares method (LSE), the maximum likelihood method (MLE), or the robust method. In this paper, a new robust method is proposed to estimate the model parameters of the causal autoregressive models (CAR). Preliminary experiments with the generated images are performed to compare the estimation performances. The proposed method is also applied to extract features for the problems of classification of surface defects on wood boards.

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