SAR image autofocus by sharpness optimization: A theoretical study

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2309-2321

  Morrison, Robert L ^a,b   Do, Minh N ^a   Munson, David C ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Autofocus; Iterative methods; Sharpness optimization; Sparsity condition; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; OPTIMIZATION;

AUTOFOCUS TECHNIQUES; METRIC-BASED METHOD; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION; SHARPNESS OPTIMIZATION; SPARSITY CONDITION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34548220041     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2007.903252     Document Type: Article

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