A hybrid de-speckling filter driven by a novel homogeneity feature

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4173, Issue January, 2000, Pages 43-53

  Aiazzi, Bruno ^a   Alparone, Luciano ^b   Baronti, Stefano ^a  

^a IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

LLMMSE filtering; Local variation coefficient; Rational Laplacian Pyramid (RLP); Speckle; Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR); Texture

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PIXELS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SPECKLE; TEXTURES; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS; LAPLACIAN PYRAMID; LLMMSE FILTERING; LOCAL IMAGE CHARACTERISTIC; LOCAL VARIATIONS; MULTI-RESOLUTION APPROACH; SPECKLE REDUCTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DE-SPECKLING FILTERS;

EID: 0034467695     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.410669     Document Type: Conference Paper

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