I think this paper, entitled “Region competition: Unifying snakes, region growing, and Bayes/MDL for multiband image segmentation” is indicative of the overall mindset. Even though the title explicitly mentions Bayes and MDL, the paper doesn’t report any compression results—only segmentation results. Bayes/MDL are viewed as tricks to be used to achieve some other purpose, not as the fundamental principle justifying the research.
I think this paper, entitled “Region competition: Unifying snakes, region growing, and Bayes/MDL for multiband image segmentation” is indicative of the overall mindset. Even though the title explicitly mentions Bayes and MDL, the paper doesn’t report any compression results—only segmentation results. Bayes/MDL are viewed as tricks to be used to achieve some other purpose, not as the fundamental principle justifying the research.