Abstract
The accurate statistical modeling of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is a crucial problem in the context of effective SAR image processing, interpretation, and application. In this paper, a semi-parametric approach is designed within the framework of finite mixture models based on the generalized Gamma distribution in view of its flexibility and compact form. Specifically, we develop a generalized Gamma mixture model to implement an effective statistical analysis of high-resolution SAR images and prove the identifiability of such mixtures. A low-complexity unsupervised estimation method is derived by combining the proposed histogram-based expectation–conditional maximization algorithm and the Figueiredo–Jain algorithm. This results in a numerical maximum-likelihood (ML) estimator that can simultaneously determine the ML estimates of component parameters and the optimal number of mixture components. Finally, the state-of-the-art performance of this proposed method is verified by experiments with a wide range of high-resolution SAR images.
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