Adaptive speckle MAP filtering for SAR images using statistical clustering

Proceedings - SIBGRAPI 1998: International Symposium on Computer Graphics, Image Processing, and Vision

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 303-310

  Medeiros, F N S ^a,c   Mascarenhas, N D A ^b   Da Costa, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

clustering; Hough transform; MAP estimator; nonlinear filtering; speckle noise

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NONLINEAR FILTERING; RADAR IMAGING; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CLUSTERING; EDGE PRESERVATIONS; K-MEANS CLUSTERING ALGORITHM; MAP ESTIMATOR; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI; NONLINEAR ADAPTIVE FILTER; SPECKLE NOISE; STATISTICAL CLUSTERING;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING;

EID: 0345923263     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIBGRA.1998.722764     Document Type: Conference Paper

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