Abstract
In recent years, regional algorithms have shown great potential in the field of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image segmentation. However, SAR images have a variety of landforms and a landform with complex texture is difficult to be divided as a whole. Due to speckle noise, traditional over-segmentation algorithm may cause mixed superpixels with different labels. They are usually located adjacent to two areas or contain more noise. In this paper, a new semantic segmentation method of SAR images based on texture complexity analysis and key superpixels is proposed. Texture complexity analysis is performed and on this basis, mixed superpixels are selected as key superpixels. Specifically, the texture complexity of the input image is calculated by a new method. Then a new superpixels generation method called neighbourhood information simple linear iterative clustering (NISLIC) is used to over-segment the image. For images with high texture complexity, the complex areas are first separated and key superpixels are selected according to certain rules. For images with low texture complexity, key superpixels are directly extracted. Finally, the superpixels are pre-segmented by fuzzy clustering based on the extracted features and the key superpixels are processed at the pixel level to obtain the final result. The effectiveness of this method has been successfully verified on several kinds of images. Comparing with the state-of-the-art algorithms, the proposed algorithm can more effectively distinguish different landforms and suppress the influence of noise, so as to achieve semantic segmentation of SAR images.
Highlights
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a widely used remote sensing imaging system, which can produce high-resolution images and work under all time and all-weather conditions [1]
Texture complexity analysis is performed and on this basis, mixed superpixels are selected as key superpixels
This paper has proposed a new semantic segmentation method for SAR image, named TKSFCM
Summary
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a widely used remote sensing imaging system, which can produce high-resolution images and work under all time and all-weather conditions [1]. SAR image have a variety of landforms, such as rivers, crops and residential areas. When interpreting SAR images, it is usually necessary to understand these different landforms as independent regions. As a basic work of SAR image interpretation, SAR image segmentation is to divide a SAR image into several non-overlapping and coherent regions. Dividing SAR images into these meaningful areas helps to understand the image from a high level and is convenient for further processing and analysis. Due to the special imaging mechanism, the SAR image itself contains many speckle noises [5]. This multiplicative noise makes the processing of SAR images very challenging
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