Structure-preserving speckle reduction of sar images using nonlocal means filters

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2985-2988

  Yang, Xuezhi ^a   Clausi, David A ^b  

^a HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Nonlocal means; Speckle reduction; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PIXELS; RADAR; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

DE-SPECKLING; ENHANCED LEE FILTER; EVALUATION RESULTS; FILTERING SCHEMES; HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS; IMAGE STRUCTURES; NONLOCAL; NONLOCAL MEANS FILTER; SAR IMAGES; SELF-SIMILARITIES; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SPECKLE NOISE; SPECKLE REDUCING ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; SPECKLE REDUCTION; STRUCTURAL PATTERN; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY; STRUCTURE PRESERVATION; STRUCTURE-PRESERVING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; TWO STAGE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 77951948197     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2009.5414502     Document Type: Conference Paper

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