Unsupervised learning of a finite gamma mixture using MML: Application to SAR image analysis

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 68-71

  Ziou, Djemel ^a   Bouguila, Nizar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FINITE GAMMA MIXTURE; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; MINIMUM MESSAGE LENGTH (MML); UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 10044249881     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icpr.2004.1334042     Document Type: Conference Paper

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