Filtering of radar images based on blind evaluation of noise characteristics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7109, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Lukin, Vladimir V ^a   Ponomarenko, Nikolay N ^a   Abramov, Sergey K ^a   Vozel, Benoit ^b   Chehdi, Kacem ^b   Astola, Jaakko T ^c  

^a NATIONAL AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Blind evaluation; DCT based filter; Spatially correlated noise

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; CLUTCHES; COSINE TRANSFORMS; DATA STRUCTURES; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WHITE NOISE;

ADAPTATION; BLIND ESTIMATIONS; BLIND EVALUATION; DCT BASED FILTER; DENOISING ALGORITHMS; FILTERING TECHNIQUES; MULTIPLICATIVE NATURES; NOISE CHARACTERISTICS; NOISE COMPONENTS; PRIORI INFORMATIONS; SIDE LOOKS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIALLY CORRELATED NOISE; UNCORRELATED;

RADAR;

EID: 57649140577     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.799396     Document Type: Conference Paper

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