Level set polarization SAR image segmentation method based on polarization characteristic decomposition

A level set polarization SAR image segmentation method based on polarization characteristic decomposition, belonging to the radar remote sensing technology or the image processing technology. In the invention, a polarization characteristic vector v which is composed of three polarization characteristics: H, alpha and A is obtained by the polarization characteristic decomposition of each pixel point of the original polarization SAR image; the polarization characteristic vectors v of all the pixel points are combined into a polarization characteristic matrix omega so as to convert the segmentation problem of the polarization SAR image from data space to polarization characteristic vector space; and the condition that the characteristic vector definition is suitable for energy functional of the polarization SAR image segmentation is utilized and a level set method is adopted to realize the numerical value solution of partial differential equation, thus realizing the polarization SAR image segmentation. The method provided by the invention takes full use of the polarization information of the polarization SAR image; therefore, the image edge obtained by segmentation is relatively complete so that the local characteristic is maintained better, the robustness for noise is stronger, the stability of the arithmetic is higher and the segmentation result is accurate; and the invention reduces the complexity of data and can effectively improve the image segmentation speed.