Object-oriented classification of polarimetric SAR imagery based on Statistical Region Merging and Support Vector Machine

Author(s):  
H. T. Li ◽  
H.Y. Gu ◽  
Y. S. Han ◽  
J. H. Yang
Author(s):  
F. Lang ◽  
J. Yang ◽  
L. Wu ◽  
D. Li

Multi-scale segmentation of remote sensing image is more systematic and more convenient for the object-oriented image analysis compared to single-scale segmentation. However, the existing pixel-based polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) image multi-scale segmentation algorithms are usually inefficient and impractical. In this paper, we proposed a superpixel-based binary partition tree (BPT) segmentation algorithm by combining the generalized statistical region merging (GSRM) algorithm and the BPT algorithm. First, superpixels are obtained by setting a maximum region number threshold to GSRM. Then, the region merging process of the BPT algorithm is implemented based on superpixels but not pixels. The proposed algorithm inherits the advantages of both GSRM and BPT. The operation efficiency is obviously improved compared to the pixel-based BPT segmentation. Experiments using the Lband ESAR image over the Oberpfaffenhofen test site proved the effectiveness of the proposed method.


Author(s):  
F. Lang ◽  
J. Yang ◽  
L. Wu ◽  
D. Li

Multi-scale segmentation of remote sensing image is more systematic and more convenient for the object-oriented image analysis compared to single-scale segmentation. However, the existing pixel-based polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) image multi-scale segmentation algorithms are usually inefficient and impractical. In this paper, we proposed a superpixel-based binary partition tree (BPT) segmentation algorithm by combining the generalized statistical region merging (GSRM) algorithm and the BPT algorithm. First, superpixels are obtained by setting a maximum region number threshold to GSRM. Then, the region merging process of the BPT algorithm is implemented based on superpixels but not pixels. The proposed algorithm inherits the advantages of both GSRM and BPT. The operation efficiency is obviously improved compared to the pixel-based BPT segmentation. Experiments using the Lband ESAR image over the Oberpfaffenhofen test site proved the effectiveness of the proposed method.


2011 ◽  
Vol 131 (8) ◽  
pp. 1495-1501
Author(s):  
Dongshik Kang ◽  
Masaki Higa ◽  
Hayao Miyagi ◽  
Ikugo Mitsui ◽  
Masanobu Fujita ◽  
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