A nonlocal SAR image denoising algorithm based on LLMMSE wavelet shrinkage

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 606-616

  Parrilli, Sara ^a   Poderico, Mariana ^a   Angelino, Cesario Vincenzo ^a,b   Verdoliva, Luisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

Empirical Wiener filtering; linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) filtering; nonlocal filtering; speckle; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); undecimated discrete wavelet transform (UDWT)

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE; BLOCK MATCHING; DE-SPECKLING; LINEAR MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; LOCAL LINEAR; NONLOCAL; PROCESSING STEPS; REFERENCE TECHNIQUE; SAR IMAGES; SIGNAL DEPENDENT NOISE; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SPECKLED IMAGES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; UNDECIMATED DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WAVELET DOMAIN; WAVELET SHRINKAGE; WIENER FILTERING;

ALGORITHMS; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE MATCHING; IMAGE QUALITY; NOISE POLLUTION CONTROL; SHRINKAGE; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WHITE NOISE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; GAUSSIAN METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVELET;

EID: 84856341300     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2161586     Document Type: Article

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