There is a "strong relationship" between the two concepts: R S Stephens, A Probabilistic Approach to the Hough Transform http://www.bmva.org/bmvc/1990/bmvc-90-

There is a "strong relationship" between the two concepts: R S Stephens, A Probabilistic Approach to the Hough Transform http://www.bmva.org/bmvc/1990/bmvc-90-012.pdf http://www.bmva.org/bmvc/1990/bmvc-90-012.pdf