A segmentation algorithm for SAR images based on the anisotropic heat diffusion equation

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3035-3043

  Gao, Gui ^a   Zhao, Lingjun ^a   Zhang, Jun ^a   Zhou, Diefei ^b   Huang, Jijun ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion (AD); Maximum a posteriori (MAP); Segmentation; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CANNING; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DEFORMATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TARGET DRONES; TRACKING RADAR;

ELSEVIER (CO); HEAT DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; HEAT DIFFUSIONS; IMAGE SCALING; INITIAL SEGMENTATION; INTENSITY IMAGES; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI (MAP) ALGORITHMS; MULTI SCALING; POSTERIOR PROBABILITIES; SAR IMAGES; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; STRUCTURE INFORMATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; UNSUPERVISED SEGMENTATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

EID: 45549089360     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2008.01.029     Document Type: Article

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