Adaptive Segmentation of Speckled Images Using a Hierarchical Random Field Model

IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1988, Pages 1628-1641

  Kelly, Patrick A ^a   Derin, Haluk ^a   Hartt, Keith D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Analytic Systems Corporation ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY -- RANDOM PROCESSES; RADAR -- SYNTHETIC APERTURE; RADAR IMAGING;

GAUSSIAN RANDOM FIELDS; HIERARCHICAL RANDOM FIELD MODEL; IMAGE ADAPTIVE SEGMENTATION; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI (MAP) ESTIMATION; SPECKLED IMAGES;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0024089491     PISSN: 00963518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/29.7551     Document Type: Article

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