Two-dimensional phase unwrapping using robust derivative estimation and adaptive integration

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1192-1200

  Strand, Jarle ^a   Taxt, Torfinn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Interferometry; MRI; Phase unwrapping; SAR

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; FIBER OPTICS; INTEGRATION; INTERFEROMETRY; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ADAPTIVE INTEGRATION METHOD; FIBER OPTIC INTERFEROMETRY IMAGES; PARTIAL DERIVATIVES; PHASE IMAGE; PHASE UNWRAPPING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0036811235     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2002.804567     Document Type: Article

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