Game theoretic classification of polarimetric SAR images

Hossein Aghababaei, Mahmood reza Sahebi

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Abstract

This paper reports on a region based classification of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images using the concept of game theory. The proposed method mainly contains the following steps. Firstly, the PolSAR image is partitioned into over-segments using an adaptation of k-means approach. Then, in order to compute the similarity between two distinct oversegments, a measure from polarimetric features and region size is defined. Finally, the regions or over-segments are merged into the meaningful clusters using a game theory based approach. In the game theory way, region merging problem is transformed into an iterative figure/ground separation state. In other words, considering the similarity measure, over-segments that belong to the figure compete with others through the game and obtain a considerable advantage in comparison with others. Accordingly, these privileged over-segments can be merged as an individual cluster. For clustering of the remaining over-segments, the procedure should be repeated. The performance of the proposed classification framework on simulated and real data sets is presented and analyzed; and the experimental results show that the framework provides a promising solution for classification of PolSAR images.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)33-48
Number of pages16
JournalEuropean Journal of Remote Sensing
Volume48
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • ITC-ISI-JOURNAL-ARTICLE
  • ITC-GOLD

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