FPGA-based adaptive speckle suppression filter for underwater imaging sonar

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 646-657

  Karabchevsky, Serge ^a   Kahana, David ^a   Ben Harush, Ortal ^a   Guterman, Hugo ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adaptive filters; field programmable gate array (FPGA); sonar; speckle

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SPECKLE SUPPRESSION FILTERS; DE-SPECKLING; FIELD-PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY IMPLEMENTATIONS; IMAGING SONAR; LOW POWER; MOVING PLATFORM; MULTIPLICATIVE NOISE; NOVEL ARCHITECTURE; POWER EFFICIENCY; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; REALTIME PROCESSING; SIDE SCAN SONAR; SONAR IMAGE; SPECKLE FILTERS; SPECKLE NOISE; SPECKLE REDUCTION; SPECKLE SUPPRESSION; STANDARD SOFTWARE;

ADAPTIVE FILTERS; COHERENT SCATTERING; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); LOGIC GATES; SONAR; SPECKLE; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; UNDERWATER VISIBILITY;

UNDERWATER IMAGING;

EID: 80054893357     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2011.2157729     Document Type: Article

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