SAR Image Despeckling Using a Convolutional Neural Network

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 1763-1767

  Wang, Puyang ^a   Zhang, He ^a   Patel, Vishal M ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Denoising; despecking; image restoration; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADAR; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACTIVATION FUNCTIONS; CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK; DE-NOISING; DESPECKING; LEARNING-BASED APPROACH; MULTIPLICATIVE NOISE; SAR IMAGE DESPECKLING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 85035352696     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2017.2758203     Document Type: Article

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