Abstract
The active contour model (ACM) is widely used in target detection of optical and medical images, but multiplicative speckle noise largely interferes with its use in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. To overcome this difficulty, a region- and edge-based convex ACM with high efficiency is proposed for target detection in small-scale SAR images. Then, a novel detection algorithm, which combines the advantages of a multiscale saliency detection method and the proposed high-efficiency ACM, is presented to address a large-scale and high-resolution SAR image automatically. Target detection experiments in real and simulated SAR images show that the proposed methods outperform classical ACMs and the popular two-parameter constant false alarm rate detector in terms of efficiency and accuracy.
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