SAR image segmentation based on level set approach and G0A model

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2046-2057

  Marques, Regis C Pinheiro ^a   Medeiros, F́tima N ^a   Santos Nobre, Juvencio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

energy functional; G amplitude zero distribution.; level sets; SAR image; segmentation; Speckle

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE; DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS; ENERGY FUNCTIONALS; HETEROGENEOUS REGION; IMAGE REGIONS; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET APPROACH; LEVEL SET FRAMEWORK; NUMERICAL SCHEME; SAR DATA; SAR IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SAR IMAGES; SEGMENTATION METHODS; STATISTICAL DATA MODEL; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; ZERO DISTRIBUTION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SPECKLE; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84865331244     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2011.274     Document Type: Article

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