Spatially adaptive wavelet-based method using the cauchy prior for denoising the SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 500-507

  Bhuiyan, M I H ^a,b   Ahmad, M O ^a,b   Swamy, M N S ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cauchy distribution; Spatial adaptation; Speckle noise; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

CAUCHY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPATIAL ADAPTATION; SPECKLE NOISE;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; RADAR IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 34247614981     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2006.888020     Document Type: Article

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