SAR image denoising via Bayesian wavelet shrinkage based on heavy-tailed modeling

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1773-1784

  Achim, Alin ^a   Tsakalides, Panagiotis ^b   Bezerianos, Anastasios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation; Symmetric alpha stable distributions; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) speckle; Wavelet decomposition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ESTIMATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECKLE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BAYESIAN ALGORITHM; IMAGE DENOISING; MULTIPLICATIVE SPECKLE NOISE; SOFT THRESHOLDING TECHNIQUES; SUBBAND DECOMPOSITIONS;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0141787887     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.813488     Document Type: Article

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