A parameterized statistical sonar image texture model

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6953, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Cobb, J Tory ^a   Slatton, K Clint ^b  

^a NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation function; Gamma distribution; K distribution; Parameter estimation; Rayleigh distribution; Sonar

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SONAR; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 44349105287     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.777185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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