Multiresolution MAP despeckling of SAR images based on locally adaptive generalized Gaussian pdf modeling

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3385-3399

  Argenti, Fabrizio ^a   Bianchi, Tiziano ^a   Alparone, Luciano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive filtering; Generalized Gaussian (GG) modeling; Maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation; Speckle; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images; Undecimated wavelet decomposition

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR IMAGING; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DESPECKLING; GENERALIZED GAUSSIAN MODELING; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI ESTIMATION; SHIFT-INVARIANT WAVELET DOMAIN; UNDECIMATED WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33750335067     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2006.881970     Document Type: Article

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