Edge location in SAR images: Performance of the likelihood ratio filter and accuracy improvement with an active contour approach

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 72-78

  Germain, Olivier ^a   Réfreégier, Philippe ^a  

^a Ecole Centrale Marseille   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; EDGE DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

LIKELIHOOD RATIO EDGE DETECTORS; STATISTICAL ACTIVE CONTOUR APPROACH;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0035124452     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.892444     Document Type: Article

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