Image segmentation is one of the most studied problems in computer vision. A really good lectures about this topic is by Prof. Daniel Cremers: http://www.youtub

Image segmentation is one of the most studied problems in computer vision. A really good lectures about this topic is by Prof. Daniel Cremers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpw26tpHGr8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpw26tpHGr8. In one of the talks, he describes methods that were popular in 80' and that are pretty much what the author developed.