Undecimated double density wavelet transform based speckle reduction in SAR images

Computers and Electrical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 209-217

  Gnanadurai, D ^a   Sadasivam, V ^b   Paul Tiburtius Nishandh, J ^c   Muthukumaran, L ^d   Annamalai, C ^e  

^a FRANCIS XAVIER ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

^b MANONMANIAM SUNDARANAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Life Sciences Digital Business Operations   (India)

^d D India Ltd   (India)

^e TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES   (India)

Author keywords

Arithmetic mean; Filter bank; Geometric mean and thresholding technique; Speckle noise; Undecimated double density wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EDGE DETECTION; FILTER BANKS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; STATISTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

ADAPTIVE METHODS; ARITHMETIC MEAN; EVALUATION PARAMETERS; GEOMETRIC MEAN AND THRESHOLDING TECHNIQUE; IMAGE DENOISING ALGORITHMS; INVERSE TRANSFORMS; MEAN RATIOS; OPTIMUM THRESHOLDS; PEAK SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIOS; SAR IMAGES; SPECKLE NOISE; SPECKLE REDUCTIONS; STANDARD DEVIATIONS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SUB BANDS; THRESHOLD ESTIMATIONS; THRESHOLDING; UNDECIMATED DOUBLE DENSITY WAVELET TRANSFORM; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS; WAVELET SUBBAND COEFFICIENTS;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EID: 57849160639     PISSN: 00457906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compeleceng.2008.04.010     Document Type: Article

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