A higher-order MRF based variational model for multiplicative noise reduction

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1370-1374

  Chen, Yunjin ^a   Feng, Wensen ^b,c   Ranftl, Rene ^a   Qiao, Hong ^c   Pock, Thomas ^a,d  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^d AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Despeckling; fields of experts; MRFs; non convex optimization; speckle noise

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE NOISE; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DE-SPECKLING; FIELDS OF EXPERTS; MRFS; NONCONVEX OPTIMIZATION; SPECKLE NOISE;

NOISE ABATEMENT;

EID: 84904631965     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2014.2337274     Document Type: Article

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