Analysis of minute features in speckled imagery with maximum likelihood estimation

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2004, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 2476-2491

  Frery, Alejandro C ^a   Cribari Neto, Francisco ^b   De Souza, Marcelo O ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

^b Centro Reg de Cien Nucleares CRCN/NE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Computation; Image analysis; Inference; Likelihood; Optimization

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

IMAGERY; INFERENCE; INFLUENCE FUNCTIONS; MULTIPLICATIVE MODELS;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 14544292157     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S111086570440907X     Document Type: Article

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