SAR image denoising based on lifting directionlet domain Gaussian scale mixtures model

Jisuanji Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Computers

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1234-1241

  Bai, Jing ^a   Hou, Biao ^a   Wang, Shuang ^a   Jiao, Li Cheng ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Directionlet transform; Gaussian scale mixtures (GSM); Lifting scheme; SAR image; Speckle noise

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; IMAGE DENOISING; MIXTURES; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRELLIS CODES; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DIRECTIONLET TRANSFORM; GAUSSIAN SCALE MIXTURES; LIFTING SCHEMES; SAR IMAGES; SPECKLE NOISE;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 48549093965     PISSN: 02544164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3724/sp.j.1016.2008.01234     Document Type: Article

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