Title :
Segmentation of radar images using a combined watershed and Fisher techniques
Author :
Belkhaoui, B. ; Toumi, Ahmed ; Khenchaf, A. ; Khalfallah, A. ; Bouhlel, Mohamed Salim
Author_Institution :
LabSticc, ENSTA Bretagne, Brest, France
Abstract :
The image segmentation is one of the most used steps in image processing applications. Indeed, this process enables us to extract feature vectors which could be useful for experts decision and recognition task. This paper deals with the radar images segmentation for recognition targets. However, the radar images, generally include noise resulting from the acquisition step and from the several techniques of radar image reconstruction. In this work, we aimed to extract the general shape from the ISAR images. Accordingly, we combined two techniques: the Fisher algorithm and the watershed technique.
Keywords :
feature extraction; image recognition; image reconstruction; image segmentation; radar imaging; shape recognition; synthetic aperture radar; Fisher algorithm; Fisher technique; ISAR image; feature vector extraction; image processing application; noise; radar image reconstruction; radar image segmentation; recognition target; recognition task; shape extraction; watershed technique; Algorithm design and analysis; Feature extraction; Image segmentation; Radar imaging; Target recognition; Fisher; ISAR images; Watershed;
Conference_Titel :
Sciences of Electronics, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications (SETIT), 2012 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sousse
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1657-6
DOI :
10.1109/SETIT.2012.6481948