| SPECKLE REDUCTION IN SAR IMAGES USING A BAYESIAN MULTISCALE APPROACH |
| Paper ID : 1100-SMPR |
| Authors: |
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Fatemeh Zakeri *1, Mohammad Reza Saradjian2, Mahmod Reza Sahebi3 1School of Surveying and Geospatial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran. 2School of Surveying and Geospatial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran 3Faculty of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology |
| Abstract: |
| SPECKLE REDUCTION IN SAR IMAGES USING A BAYESIAN MULTISCALE APPROACH Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are corrupted by speckles, which influence interpretation of the images. Therefore, to reduce speckles and obtain reliable information from images, researchers studied different methods. This study proposes a Bayesian multiscale method, to reduce speckles in SAR images. First, it was shown that Laplacian probability density function can capture the characteristics of noise-free curvelet coefficients, and then, a maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimator was designed for estimating them. Comparison of the results obtained with those obtained from conventional speckle filters, such as Lee, Kuan, Frost, and Gamma filters, and also curvelet non-Bayesian despeckling, shows better achievement of the proposed algorithm. For instance, the improvement in different parameters is as follows: ‘noise mean value’ (NMV) 0.24 times, ‘noise standard deviation’ (NSD) 0.34 times, ‘mean square difference’ (MSD) 2.6 times and ‘equivalent number of looks’ (ENL) 0.61 times. |
| Keywords: |
| Curvelet Transform, SAR Images, Speckle Noise, Statistical Modeling |
| Status : Conditional Accept (Poster) |
