An automatic approach to the detection and extraction of mine features in sidescan sonar

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 90-105

  Reed, Scott ^a   Petillot, Yvan ^a   Bell, Judith ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A priori information; Automated mine detection; Image analysis; Markov random field (MRF) models; Shadow extraction; Statistical snakes

Indexed keywords

BOMBS (ORDNANCE); FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SONAR; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AUTOMATED MINE DETECTION; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD; MINE COUNTERMEASURES; SHADOW EXTRACTION; STATISTICAL SNAKES;

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 0037258870     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2002.808199     Document Type: Article

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