Synthetic aperture radar image segmentation by modified student's t-mixture model

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4391-4403

  Zhang, Hui ^a   Wu, Q M Jonathan ^b   Nguyen, Thanh Minh ^b   Sun, Xingming ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Expectation maximization (EM) algorithm; image segmentation; mean filter; spatial constraints; Student's t distributions; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; PIXELS; PROBABILITY; STUDENTS;

EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; MEAN FILTER; SPATIAL CONSTRAINTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; T DISTRIBUTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIXEL; PROBABILITY; RADAR IMAGERY; SIMULATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84896405853     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2281854     Document Type: Article

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