Fast ship contour extraction in SAR images

Fast ship contour extraction in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images plays an important role in sea surface surveillance. Ship contours and sizes and shapes extracted from them are salient features in ship classification and recognition. This study presents a two-step method to fast extract ship co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yuan-Ying Nie, Shu-Chen Fan, Peng-Lang Shui
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-07-01
Series:The Journal of Engineering
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Online Access:https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/joe.2019.0384