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Fuzzy Active Contour Model With Markov Random Field for Change Detection

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The traditional active contour models are sensitive to the speckle noise in the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. In this paper, the Markov random field (MRF) theory is incorporated into… Click to show full abstract

The traditional active contour models are sensitive to the speckle noise in the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. In this paper, the Markov random field (MRF) theory is incorporated into the fuzzy active contour model to detect the changes of multitemporal SAR images. In the proposed method, neighboring information is considered to modify the pointwise prior probability for exploiting the mutual and spatial information. In addition, we incorporate MRF into the fuzzy active contour model and get the resulting MRF-based energy function. Finally, we drive the associated first variation of the energy function to compute the fuzzy membership. Due to the introduction of MRF, the proposed MRF-based fuzzy active contour model is robust to the speckle noise in the SAR images and can achieve accurate change detection results. Experiments on four SAR image datasets demonstrate that the proposed MRF-based fuzzy active contour model is able to accurately segment the difference image and has better performance in comparison with other change detection techniques.

Keywords: change detection; contour; contour model; fuzzy active; active contour

Journal Title: IEEE Access
Year Published: 2022

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