Bayesian wavelet shrinkage with heterogeneity-adaptive threshold for SAR image despeckling based on generalized gamma distribution

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2388-2402

  Li, Heng Chao ^a,b   Hong, Wen ^a   Wu, Yi Rong ^a   Fan, Ping Zhi ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Generalized gamma distribution; maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation; second kind cumulants; speckle reduction; stationary wavelet transform (SWT); synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images

Indexed keywords

CUMULANTS; GENERALIZED GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI ESTIMATION; SPECKLE REDUCTION; STATIONARY WAVELET TRANSFORMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SHRINKAGE; SPECKLE; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NOISE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVELET;

EID: 84875695852     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2211366     Document Type: Article

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