SAR image segmentation with active contours and level sets

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 2717-2720

  Ben Ayed, Ismail ^a   Vázquez, Carlos ^a   Mitiche, Amar ^a   Belhadj, Ziad ^a  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; CONTOUR DETECTION; ENERGY FUNCTIONALS; IMAGE DOMAINS;

COMPUTER VISION; CURVE FITTING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 20444499803     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2004.1421665     Document Type: Conference Paper

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