MPM SAR image segmentation using feature extraction and context model

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1041-1045

  Hou, Biao ^a   Zhang, Xiangrong ^a   Li, Nan ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hierarchical Markov random field model; maximization of posterior marginals (MPM); SAR image segmentation; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); watershed segmentation

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT MODELS; DESCRIPTORS; GABOR WAVELETS; INTRA-LAYER; MARGINALS; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MODEL; SAR IMAGE SEGMENTATION; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGE SEGMENTATIONS; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84863427020     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2189352     Document Type: Article

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