Unsupervised classification of radar images using hidden Markov chains and hidden Markov random fields

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 675-686

  Fjørtoft, Roger ^a   Delignon, Yves ^b   Pieczynski, Wojciech ^c   Sigelle, Marc ^d   Tupin, Florence ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN COMPUTING CENTER   (Norway)

^b Groupe de recherche imageset formes   (France)

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL DES TÉLÉCOMMUNICATIONS   (France)

^d TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Generalized mixture estimation; Hidden Markov chains; Hidden Markov random fields; Radar images; Unsupervised classification

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING;

GENERALIZED MIXTURE ESTIMATION; HIDDEN MARKOV CHAINS; HIDDEN MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0038387419     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.809940     Document Type: Article

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