The invention discloses an
SAR image segmentation method on the basis of the HMT model in the
Shearlet domain, which pertains to the technical field of
image processing and mainly aims at solving the problem that the application of the traditional multi-scale geometrical analysis in
SAR image segmentation is easy to result in poor regional uniformity and disorder edges. The segmentation process comprises the steps of extracting feature areas (I0, I1, and the like, and IC) in the SAR image to be segmented, calculating the
Shearlet transformation coefficients (S0, S1, and the like, and SC) of the feature areas, utilizing the EM
algorithm to obtain the HMT
model parameter set (Theta1, Theta2, and the like, and ThetaC) in the
Shearlet domain of various feature areas, carrying out Shearlet transformation to the SAR image to be segmented to obtain an image coefficient S, utilizing the feature coefficients (S0, S1, and the like, and SC) to calculate likelihood values (Lhood, Lhood, and the like, and Lhood) corresponding to the SAR image coefficient S in each scale, calculating initial segmentation results (MLseg, MLseg, and the like, and MLseg) of the likelihood values in each scale according to the maximum likelihood rule, carrying out fusion to the initial segmentation results by maximizing
a posteriori probability criterion and taking the fused image of the scale at the first level as a final segmentation result. The method has the advantages of high convergence rate, good regional uniformity of segmentation result and completely retained information, and can be applied to SAR image target identification.