Bayesian wavelet shrinkage with edge detection for SAR image despeckling

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1642-1648

  Dai, Min ^a   Peng, Cheng ^a,b   Chan, Andrew K ^a   Loguinov, Dmitri ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimation; Ratio edge detector; Stationary wavelet transform (SWT); Wavelet shrinkage

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; EDGE DETECTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; THRESHOLD ELEMENTS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DESPECKLING; MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERROR (MMSE) ESTIMATION; RATIO EDGE DETECTOR; STATIONARY WAVELET TRANSFORM (SWT); WAVELET SHRINKAGE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 4344705405     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.831231     Document Type: Article

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