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On Semiparametric Clutter Estimation for Ship Detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar Images
On Semiparametric Clutter Estimation for Ship Detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar Images
Cui, Yi
Yang, Jian
山口, 芳雄
Singh, Gulab
Park, Sang-Eun
Kobayashi, Hirokazu
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Clutter estimation
copula
kernel density estimator (KDE)
ship detection
synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
The statistical behavior of the sea clutter in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is characterized by both the marginal distribution and spatial correlation. However, simultaneous modeling of the joint information remains a difficult job because of the non-Gaussian clutter nature. In this paper, a semiparametric approach is proposed for addressing this problem with the two-fold purpose. First, we investigate the applicability of the nonparametric kernel density estimator (KDE) for marginal distribution estimation of the SAR clutter and show that the KDE is most applicable in the log-intensity domain. Second, we propose to separately estimate the underlying correlation structure with a copula approach and show that the Gaussian copula is a sufficiently accurate model. Consequently, the KDE together with the Gaussian copula, offers a full characterization of the joint probability distribution, based on which a quadratic detector of null distribution is governed by the well-known chi-square law can be conveniently designed for constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detection. In the experiment, results with both simulated and real SAR data demonstrate that, compared with the single-point detector using only the marginal distribution, the proposed method, which incorporates spatial correlation, significantly improves the detection performance with regard to either the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve or detected target pixels. The tradeoff, however, lies in a loss of false alarm rate (FAR) control resulting from increased uncertainty in estimating higher dimensional distributions.
IEEE
2013-05
eng
journal article
http://hdl.handle.net/10191/21744
https://niigata-u.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/1726
info:doi/10.1109/TGRS.2012.2218659
AA00231483
01962892
IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing
IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing
51
5
3170
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