Unsupervised seabed segmentation of synthetic aperture sonar imagery via wavelet features and spectral clustering

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Abstract

An unsupervised seabed segmentation algorithm for synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) imagery is proposed. Each 2 m x 2 m area of seabed is treated as a unique data point. A set of features derived from the coefficients of a wavelet decomposition are extracted for each data point. Spectral clustering is then performed with this data, which assigns the data points to clusters. This clustering result is then used directly to effect a segmentation of the SAS image into different seabed types. Experimental results on four real, measured SAS images demonstrate the promise of the proposed approach. Importantly, accurate image segmentation results are achieved on the large, challenging images without the aid of any training data or parameter estimation.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2009 - Proceedings
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages557-560
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9781424456543
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
Duration: Nov 7 2009Nov 10 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
ISSN (Print)1522-4880

Other

Other2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2009
Country/TerritoryEgypt
CityCairo
Period11/7/0911/10/09

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Signal Processing

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