Affiliations: [a] Department of Information Technology, Mizoram University, India | [b] Department of Information Technology, NEHU, India
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Corresponding author: R. Lalchhanhima, %****␣mgs-16-mgs200337_temp.tex␣Line␣25␣**** Faculty of Department of Information Technology, Mizoram University, India. E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Segmentation has been a challenging task because of the presence of speckle noise. Therefore, the segmentation process can not directly rely on the intensity information alone, but it must consider several derived features in order to get satisfactory segmentation results. In this paper, it is attempted to use supervised information about regions for segmentation criteria in which ANN is employed to give training on the basis of known ground truth image derived. Three different features are employed for segmentation, first feature is the original image, second feature is the roughness information and the third feature is the filtered image. The segmentation accuracy is measured against the Difficulty of Segmentation (DoS) and Cross Region Fitting (CRF) methods. The performance of our algorithm has been compared with other proposed methods employing the same set of data.
Keywords: Image segmentation, roughness feature, artificial neural network, noise removal, SAR image, supervised training
