Fast MAP despeckling based on Laplacian-Gaussian modeling of wavelet coefficients

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 13-17

  Argenti, Fabrizio ^a   Bianchi, Tiziano ^a   Lapini, Alessandro ^a   Alparone, Luciano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Despeckling; maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) estimation; synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images; undecimated wavelet transform (UDWT)

Indexed keywords

A-LAPLACIAN; CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; DE-SPECKLING; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; GENERALIZED GAUSSIAN; IMAGE DESPECKLING; MAP ESTIMATION; MAP ESTIMATOR; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI PROBABILITIES; SHAPE PARAMETERS; SPECKLE NOISE; SPECKLE REMOVAL; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; TEXTURE ENERGY; UNDECIMATED WAVELET TRANSFORM; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS;

ESTIMATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TEXTURES;

WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

EID: 84655161948     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2158798     Document Type: Article

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