Evaluating SAR sea ice image segmentation using edge-preserving region-based MRFs

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1383-1393

  Yang, Xuezhi ^a   Clausi, David A ^b  

^a HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Instantaneous coefficient of variation; Markov random field (MRF); Sea ice segmentation; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Watersheds

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; COMPUTATIONAL SAVINGS; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; EDGE PRESERVING; EXTRACTION PROCESS; FEATURE MODELS; INTENSITY IMAGES; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; OPTIMIZATION PROCESS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; REGION-BASED; SAR IMAGES; SEARCH SPACES; SEGMENTATION ACCURACY; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SEGMENTATION PROCESS; SPECKLE NOISE; TESTING RESULTS; WATER-SHED ALGORITHM;

EDGE DETECTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEA ICE; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATERSHEDS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MARKOV CHAIN; SEA ICE; SEGMENTATION; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATERSHED;

EID: 84869880702     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2217940     Document Type: Article

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