Unsupervised Local Spatial Mixture Segmentation of Underwater Objects in Sonar Images

In this paper, we focus on the segmentation of sonar images to achieve underwater object detection and classification. Our goal is to achieve accurate segmentation of the object's highlight and shadow regions. We target a robust solution that can manage different seabed backgrounds. Segmentation of sonar images is a challenging task. Speckle noise and intensity inhomogeneity may cause false detections and complex seabed textures, such as sand...