Target segmentation in active polarimetric images by use of statistical active contours

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 874-883

  Goudail, François ^a   Réfrégier, Philippe ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; POLARIMETERS; SPECKLE;

ORTHOGONAL STATE CONTRAST IMAGES (OSCI); POLARIMETRIC IMAGES; TWO-CHANNEL IMAGES (TCI);

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0036300262     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.000874     Document Type: Article

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