Multiscale unsupervised segmentation of SAR imagery using the genetic algorithm

Sensors

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1704-1711

  Wen, Xian Bin ^a   Zhang, Hua ^a   Jiang, Ze Tao ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANCHANG HANGKONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithms; Multiscale; SAR image; Unsupervised segmentation

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; RADAR; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; LOCAL OPTIMAL SOLUTION; MINIMUM DESCRIPTION LENGTH; MULTISCALE; MULTISCALE SEGMENTATION; SAR IMAGES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGERY; UNSUPERVISED SEGMENTATION;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 41549129009     PISSN: 14243210     EISSN: 14248220     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s8031704     Document Type: Article

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