SAR image segmentation by stochastic complexity minimization with a nonparametric noise model

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1954-1961

  Delyon, Guillaume ^a   Réfrégier, Philippe ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Active contours; Performance evaluation; SAR image segmentation; Stochastic complexity; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTIMIZATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; STANDARD SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; STOCHASTIC COMPLEXITY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 33746360244     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.870434     Document Type: Article

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