Seabed segmentation using optimized statistics of sonar textures

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1621-1631

  Karoui, Imen ^a   Fablet, Ronan ^a   Boucher, Jean Marc ^a   Augustin, Jean Marie ^b  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

^b IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Active regions; Angular backscattering; Feature selection; Level sets; Maximum marginal probability (MMP); Segmentation; Sonar images; Texture

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE REGIONS; ANGULAR BACKSCATTERING; FEATURE SELECTION; LEVEL SETS; MAXIMUM MARGINAL PROBABILITY (MMP); SEGMENTATION; SONAR IMAGES;

BACKSCATTERING; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; OPTIMIZATION; SONAR; ULSI CIRCUITS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

TEXTURES;

ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; OPTIMIZATION; SEAFLOOR; SEGMENTATION; SONAR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEXTURE;

EID: 67349245477     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2006362     Document Type: Conference Paper

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