Quantification of extensional uncertainty of segmented image objects by random sets

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2548-2557

  Zhao, Xi ^a,b   Stein, Alfred ^a   Chen, Xiaoling ^b,c   Zhang, Xiang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JIANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Extensional uncertainty; image object; random sets; segmentation; uncertain boundary

Indexed keywords

BASIC PARAMETERS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; DATA QUALITY; DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTY; EXTENSIONAL UNCERTAINTY; GEO-INFORMATION; GRADUAL CHANGES; IMAGE OBJECTS; KEY TOPICS; LEVEL SET; NUMBER OF ITERATIONS; PAPER MODELS; POYANG LAKE AREA; RANDOM SET; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTED IMAGES; SEGMENTED OBJECTS; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SYNTHETIC DATASETS; UNCERTAIN BOUNDARIES; UNCERTAINTY MODELING; VEGETATION PATCHES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

SET THEORY;

ALGORITHM; ASYMMETRY; DATA QUALITY; DATA SET; IMAGE PROCESSING; PARAMETERIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SEGMENTATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

CHINA; JIANGXI; POYANG LAKE;

EID: 79959756260     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2109064     Document Type: Article

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