Compositionality in computer vision

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S. Geman. Hierarchy in machine and natural vision. Proceedings of the 11th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, 1999.

S. Geman, D.F. Potter, and Z. Chi. Composition systems. Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, LX, 2002, 707-736. (pdf)

Y. Jin and S. Geman. Context and hierarchy in a probabilistic image model. CVPR (2), 2006, 2145-2152. (pdf)