A statistical active contour model for SAR image segmentation

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 17, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 213-224

  Horritt, Matthew S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active contour mode; Image segmentation; Synthetic aperture radar; Texture

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; RADAR IMAGING; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODELS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0033098265     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0262-8856(98)00101-2     Document Type: Article

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