Multiphase SAR image segmentation with G0-statistical-model- based active contours

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 4190-4199

  Feng, Jilan ^a   Cao, Zongjie ^a   Pi, Yiming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Active contours; G0 statistical model; image segmentation; multiphase model; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); total variation (TV) regularization

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR METHOD; ACTIVE CONTOURS; FUZZY MEMBERSHIP FUNCTION; MULTIPHASE MODEL; MULTIPHASE SEGMENTATIONS; SAR IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; TOTAL VARIATION REGULARIZATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FUZZY MATHEMATICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOLUTION; SEGMENTATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84880253659     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2227754     Document Type: Article

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