Denoising of single-look SAR images based on variance stabilization and nonlocal filters

Mathematical Methods in Electromagnetic Theory, MMET, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Mäkitalo, Markku ^a   Foi, Alessandro ^a   Fevralev, Dmitriy ^b   Lukin, Vladimir ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE; DE-NOISING; DE-SPECKLING; IMAGE FILTERS; IMAGE MODELING; IMAGE PATCHES; NATURAL IMAGES; NONLOCAL; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTIONS; SAR IMAGES; SELF-SIMILARITIES; SPECKLE NOISE;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE QUALITY; NOISE POLLUTION CONTROL; NUMERICAL METHODS; RADAR; RADAR CROSS SECTION; RADAR IMAGING; SPECKLE; WHITE NOISE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 78649305914     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MMET.2010.5611418     Document Type: Conference Paper

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