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    Unsupervised fuzzy-wavelet framework for coastal polynya detection in synthetic aperture radar images
    (Cogent Engineering, 2016) Pelliza, Karim Alejandra; Pucheta, Martín alejo; Flesia, Ana Georgina
    The automated detection of coasts, riverbanks, and polynyas from syn thetic aperture radar images is a difficult image processing task due to speckle noise. In this work we present a novel Fuzzy-Wavelet framework for bordeline region detection in SAR images. Our technique is based on a combination of Wavelet de noising and Fuzzy Logic which boost decision-making on noisy and poorly defined environments. Unlike most recent filtering-detection algorithms, we do not apply hypothesis tests (Wilcoxon-Mann Whitney-G0) to label the edge point candidates one by one, instead we construct a fuzzy map from wavelet denoised image and extract their borderline. We compare our algorithm performance with the popu lar Frost–Sobel approach and a version of Canny’s algorithm with data-dependent parameters, over a database of real polynyas and coastline simulated images under the multiplicative model. The experimental results are evaluated by comparing Pratt’s Figure of Merit index of edge map quality.