An improved fast level set method initialized with a combination of k-means clustering and Otsu thresholding for unsupervised change detection from SAR images

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (13) ◽  
Author(s):  
Armin Moghimi ◽  
Safa Khazai ◽  
Ali Mohammadzadeh

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 412-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armin Moghimi ◽  
Ali Mohammadzadeh ◽  
Safa Khazai


2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 1145-1156 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Huang ◽  
H. Li ◽  
X. Huang




2016 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 215-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongbin Li ◽  
Wenzhong Shi ◽  
Soe W. Myint ◽  
Ping Lu ◽  
Qunming Wang


Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 3877 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Xie ◽  
Weike Zhang ◽  
Linna Yang ◽  
Qingping Wang ◽  
Jingjian Huang ◽  
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Inshore ship detection is an important research direction of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Due to the effects of speckle noise, land clutters and low signal-to-noise ratio, it is still challenging to achieve effective detection of inshore ships. To solve these issues, an inshore ship detection method based on the level set method and visual saliency is proposed in this paper. First, the image is fast initialized through down-sampling. Second, saliency map is calculated by improved local contrast measure (ILCM). Third, an improved level set method based on saliency map is proposed. The saliency map has a higher signal-to-noise ratio and the local level set method can effectively segment images with intensity inhomogeneity. In this way, the improved level set method has a better segmentation result. Then, candidate targets are obtained after the adaptive threshold. Finally, discrimination is employed to get the final result of ship targets. The experiments on a number of SAR images demonstrate that the proposed method can detect ship targets with reasonable accuracy and integrity.



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