A robust nonlinear scale space change detection approach for SAR images

Berk Sevilmis; Osman Erman Okman; Fatih Nar; Can Demirkesen; Müjdat Çetin

doi:10.1117/12.2030189

17 October 2013 A robust nonlinear scale space change detection approach for SAR images

Berk Sevilmis, Osman Erman Okman, Fatih Nar, Can Demirkesen, Müjdat Çetin

Proceedings Volume 8892, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XIX; 889215 (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2030189
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2013, Dresden, Germany

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a change detection approach based on nonlinear scale space analysis of change images for robust detection of various changes incurred by natural phenomena and/or human activities in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images using Maximally Stable Extremal Regions (MSERs). To achieve this, a variant of the log-ratio image of multitemporal images is calculated which is followed by Feature Preserving Despeckling (FPD) to generate nonlinear scale space images exhibiting different trade-offs in terms of speckle reduction and shape detail preservation. MSERs of each scale space image are found and then combined through a decision level fusion strategy, namely “selective scale fusion” (SSF), where contrast and boundary curvature of each MSER are considered. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated using real multitemporal high resolution TerraSAR-X images and synthetically generated multitemporal images composed of shapes with several orientations, sizes, and backscatter amplitude levels representing a variety of possible signatures of change. One of the main outcomes of this approach is that different objects having different sizes and levels of contrast with their surroundings appear as stable regions at different scale space images thus the fusion of results from scale space images yields a good overall performance.

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Berk Sevilmis, Osman Erman Okman, Fatih Nar, Can Demirkesen, and Müjdat Çetin "A robust nonlinear scale space change detection approach for SAR images", Proc. SPIE 8892, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XIX, 889215 (17 October 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2030189

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