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Edge Preserving CNN SAR Despeckling Algorithm

Image and Video Processing 2020-08-20 v3 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Abstract

SAR despeckling is a key tool for Earth Observation. Interpretation of SAR images are impaired by speckle, a multiplicative noise related to interference of backscattering from the illuminated scene towards the sensor. Reducing the noise is a crucial task for the understanding of the scene. Based on the results of our previous solution KL-DNN, in this work we define a new cost function for training a convolutional neural network for despeckling. The aim is to control the edge preservation and to better filter manmade structures and urban areas that are very challenging for KL-DNN. The results show a very good improvement on the not homogeneous areas keeping the good results in the homogeneous ones. Result on both simulated and real data are shown in the paper.

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@article{arxiv.2001.04716,
  title  = {Edge Preserving CNN SAR Despeckling Algorithm},
  author = {Sergio Vitale and Giampaolo Ferraioli and Vito Pascazio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.04716},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Accepted to LAGIRS 2020

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