Unsupervised SAR image segmentation using a hierarchical TMF model

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 971-975

  Zhang, Peng ^a   Li, Ming ^a   Wu, Yan ^a   Liu, Gaofeng ^a   Chen, Hongmeng ^a   Jia, Lu ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; hierarchical triplet Markov field (HTMF) model; multiclass segmentation; synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; GENERALIZED GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; LOCAL IMAGE CHARACTERISTIC; MULTI-CLASS SEGMENTATIONS; PROBABILITY COMPUTATIONS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE INFORMATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; TRIPLET MARKOV FIELDS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFERENCE ENGINES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84879971854     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2227295     Document Type: Article

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