Texture-based segmentation of high resolution SAR images using contourlet transform and mean shift

This paper presents an unsupervised texture-based segmentation algorithm which uses reduced contourlet transform sub-bands and mean shift clustering, to analysis the texture information of high resolution SAR images. One step and criteria is proposed to reduce the sub-bands and other's is presented to decrease the number of dimension of the feature space. The mean shift clustering method is used to obtain the number of texture regions and the centre of the label class. Group the pixels into corresponding texture region by their simple distance to the class centre pixel. Experiments on a mixture of Brodatz texture and SAR images show the proposed algorithm of using contourlet transform and mean shift clustering gives satisfactory results.