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Segmentation of the Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Using the Watershed Transformation and Region Merging Technique

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This paper presents an efficient algorithm that segments the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image into several homogeneous regions by combining edge- and region-based information. A multi-direction ratio edge detector is used to capture the locally directional variation information of a SAR image and construct the ratio edge strength map (RESM) of the SAR image. Watershed transformation is performed on the thresholded RESM to obtain an over-segmentation result. An efficient hierarchical region merging procedure based on the region adjacency graph representation of the image regions is proposed. A novel dissimilarity measurement between the two adjacent regions is derived from the multiplicative noise speckle model of the multi-look SAR image. Experimental results and the performance evaluation show that the proposed method outperforms two widely used SAR image segmentation approaches.

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Abstract
 1. Introduction
 2. Problem Formulation and Algorithm Skeleton
 3. Initial Partition
 4. Hierarchical Region Merging
  4.1. Dissimilarity Measurement
  4.2. Iterative Region Merging
 5. Experiments and Performance Evaluation
  5.1. Experiments for Synthetic and Real SAR Images
  5.2. Performance Evaluation
 6. Conclusion
 Acknowledgements
 References

저자정보

  • Chuanxian Jiang School of Information Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, China
  • Zhiping Li Department of Science, Hainan College of Software Technology, Qionghai 571400, China
  • Xiaohui Chen School of Information Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, China
  • Zejun Zhang School of Computer and Information Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 35002, China
  • Yeqing Yi Department of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan University of Humanities Science and Technology, Loudi 417000, China

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