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For high-resolution side scan sonar images, accurate and fast segmentation of sonar images is crucial for underwater target detection and recognition. However, due to the characteristics of low signal-to-noise ratio ( SNR ) and complex environmental noise of sonar, the existing methods with high accuracy and good robustness are mostly iterative methods with high complexity and poor real-time performance. For this purpose, a region growing based segmentation using the likelihood ratio testing method (RGLT) is proposed. This method obtains the seed points in the highlight and the shadow regions by likelihood ratio testing based on the statistical probability distribution and then grows them according to the similarity criterion. The growth avoids the processing of the seabed reverberation regions, which account for the largest proportion of sonar images, thus greatly reducing segmentation time and improving segmentation accuracy. In addition, a pre-processing filtering method called standard deviation filtering ( STDF ) is proposed to improve the  SNR  and remove the speckle noise. Experiments were conducted on three sonar databases, which showed that RGLT has significantly improved quantitative metrics such as accuracy, speed, and segmentation visual effects. The average accuracy and running times of the proposed segmentation method for 100 × 400 images are separately 95.90% and 0.44 s.

A Robust and Fast Method for Sidescan Sonar Image Segmentation Based on Region Growing