Supervised constrained optimization of bayesian nonlocal means filter with sigma preselection for despeckling SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4563-4575

  Gomez, Luis ^a   Munteanu, Cristian G ^a   Buemi, Maria E ^b   Jacobo Berlles, Julio C ^b   Mejail, Marta E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Bayesian filtering; nonlocal means (NL means) filtering; speckle filtering; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN FILTERING; CONSTRAINED OPTIMI-ZATION PROBLEMS; HUMAN INTERVENTION; NL-MEANS; NON- LOCAL MEANS FILTERS; SPECKLE FILTERING; SPECKLE REDUCTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; SPECKLE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; FILTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NOISE; OPTIMIZATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84881071520     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2269866     Document Type: Article

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