A new region-based active contour model with skewness wavelet energy for segmentation of SAR images

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E93-D, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1690-1699

  Akbarizadeh, Gholamreza ^a   Rezai Rad, Gholam Ali ^a   Baradaran Shokouhi, Shahriar ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Active contours; Level set method; Segmentation; Synthetic aperture radar; Third order cumulant

Indexed keywords

HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGE TEXTURE; NUMERICAL METHODS; RADAR; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; INTENSITY INFORMATION; INTENSITY INHOMOGENEITY; LEVEL SET METHOD; REGION BASED ACTIVE CONTOURS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; THIRD-ORDER CUMULANT;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 77956052962     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E93.D.1690     Document Type: Conference Paper

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