PolSAR Image Edge Detection via Structure Tensor Analysis

The weighted structure tensor (ST) can be usually used on edge detection of multi-channel images, including polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (polSAR) images. The traditional weighting method is average weighting, each channel considered to provide the same edge information. But in fact different channels tend to contain different amount of edge information, so the traditional weighting method cannot be adopted to extract full edge information of the multi-channel images. This letter proposes a novel weighting method for ST, in which the weight of each channel is obtained by the eigenvalue-measured way. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms the traditional method on edge detection.

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