Edge location in SAR images: performance of the likelihood ratio filter and accuracy improvement with an active contour approach Export

@article{citeulike:949025, abstract = {The likelihood ratio edge detector is an efficient filter for the segmentation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. We show that this filter provides biased location of the edge, when the window does not have the same orientation as the edge. A phenomenological model is proposed to characterize this bias. We then introduce an efficient technique to refine edge location: the statistical active contour. The combination of these two methods permits to achieve accurate and regularized edge location}, author = {Germain, O. and Refregier, P.}, citeulike-article-id = {949025}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=892444}, journal = {Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on}, keywords = {active, contour, detection, edge, likelihood, ratio, sar}, number = {1}, pages = {72--78}, posted-at = {2006-11-16 15:14:51}, priority = {5}, title = {Edge location in SAR images: performance of the likelihood ratio filter and accuracy improvement with an active contour approach}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=892444}, volume = {10}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:949025 L3 - citeulike-article-id:949025 N2 - The likelihood ratio edge detector is an efficient filter for the segmentation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. We show that this filter provides biased location of the edge, when the window does not have the same orientation as the edge. A phenomenological model is proposed to characterize this bias. We then introduce an efficient technique to refine edge location: the statistical active contour. The combination of these two methods permits to achieve accurate and regularized edge location IS - 1 JF - Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on EP - 78 TI - Edge location in SAR images: performance of the likelihood ratio filter and accuracy improvement with an active contour approach VL - 10 SP - 72 KW - active KW - contour KW - detection KW - edge KW - likelihood KW - ratio KW - sar AU - Germain, O AU - Refregier, P PY - 2001/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=892444 ER -