Polarimetric image segmentation via maximum-likelihood approximation and efficient multiphase level-sets

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1493-1500

  Ben Ayed, Ismail ^a   Mitiche, Amar ^a   Belhadj, Ziad ^b  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Complex Gaussian distribution; Complex Wishart distribution; Level set active contour segmentation; Maximum likelihood approximation; Polarimetric images

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; POLARIMETERS;

COMPLEX GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; COMPLEX WISHART DISTRIBUTION; LEVEL SET ACTIVE CONTOUR SEGMENTATION; MULTIPHASE LEVEL-SETS; POLARIMETRIC IMAGES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 33746539610     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2006.191     Document Type: Article

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