Minimum description length synthetic aperture radar image segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 995-1006

  Galland, Frédéric ^a   Bertaux, Nicolas ^a   Réfrégier, Philippe ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Minimum description length; Statistical models; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; SPECKLE; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

MINIMUM DESCRIPTION LENGTH (MDL);

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0042929707     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2003.816005     Document Type: Article

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