From the foreword by Thomas Huang:
"During the past decade, researchers in computer vision have found that
probabilistic machine learning methods are extremely powerful. This book
describes some of these methods. In addition to the Maximum Likelihood
framework, Bayesian Networks, and Hidden Markov models are also used.
Three aspects are stressed: features, similarity metric, and models.
Many interesting and important new results, based on research by the
authors and their collaborators, are presented.
Although this book contains many new results, it is written in a style
that suits both experts and novices in computer vision."