A fast level set method for synthetic aperture radar ocean image segmentation

Sensors

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 814-829

  Huang, Xiaoxia ^a   Huang, Bo ^b   Li, Hongga ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Fast level set; Image segmentation; Synthetic aperture radar ocean image

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY PROPAGATION; FAST LEVEL SET METHODS; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET ALGORITHM; SMOOTH BOUNDARY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; TRACK MOVING INTERFACES; UP-WIND SCHEME;

DROP BREAKUP; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 63849107913     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s90200814     Document Type: Article

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