Object Recognition from Polarimetric SAR Images
Abstract
In general, object recognition from images is concerned with separating a connected group of object pixels from background pixels and identifying or classifying the object. The indication of the image area covered by the object makes information which is implicitly given by the group of pixels, explicit by naming the object. The implicit information can be contained in the measurement values of the pixels or in the locations of the pixels relative to each other. While the former represent radiometric properties, the latter is of geometric nature describing the shape or topology of the object.