Separating touching objects in remote sensing imagery: the restricted growing concept and implementations

Author

Soh, Leen-Kiat ; Tsatsoulis, Costas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Kansas Univ., Lawrence, KS, USA

Volume

9

Issue

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

312

Lastpage

314

Abstract

This paper defines the restricted growing concept (RGC) fur object separation and provides an algorithmic analysis of its implementations. Our concept decomposes the problem of object separation into two stages. First, separation is achieved by shrinking the objects to their cores while keeping track of their originals as masks. Then the core is grown within the masks obeying the guidelines of a restricted growing algorithm. In this paper, we apply RGC to the remote sensing domain, particularly the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sea ice images

Keywords

geophysical signal processing; oceanographic techniques; radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; sea ice; synthetic aperture radar; SAR sea ice images; algorithmic analysis; core; masks; object separation; remote sensing imagery; restricted growing concept; shrinking; synthetic aperture radar; touching objects; Algorithm design and analysis; Guidelines; Image analysis; Image recognition; Pixel; Radar tracking; Remote sensing; Sea ice; Shape; Synthetic aperture radar;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1057-7149

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/83.821752

Filename

821752