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A new multiscale implementation of non-local means filtering for image denoising is proposed. The proposed algorithm also introduces a modification of similarity measure for patch comparison. The standard Euclidean norm is replaced by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-04 Zahid Hussain Shamsi , Dai-Gyoung Kim

A Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) sensor is able to collect images in different polarization states, making it a rich source of information for target characterization. PolSAR images are inherently affected by speckle.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Adugna G. Mullissa , Claudio Persello , Johannes Reiche

In ultrasound imaging the appearance of homogeneous regions of tissue is subject to speckle, which for certain applications can make the detection of tissue irregularities difficult. To cope with this, it is common practice to apply speckle…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Rüdiger Göbl , Christoph Hennersperger , Nassir Navab

In this paper, we introduce an iterative speckle filtering method for polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) images based on the bilateral filter. To locally adapt to the spatial structure of images, this filter relies on pixel similarities in both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-11-04 Olivier D'Hondt , Stéphane Guillaso , Olaf Hellwich

In this work, we propose a new approach for efficient edge-preserving image deconvolution. Our algorithm is based on a novel type of explicit image filter - guided filter. The guided filter can be used as an edge-preserving smoothing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Hang Yang , Ming Zhu , Zhongbo Zhang , Heyan Huang

This letter introduces a physics-informed self-supervised framework for sonar image despeckling that reformulates despeckling as residual consistency in the homomorphic log domain. By constraining the log-ratio residual to obey…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Swapna Pillai , Siddharth Singh Savner , Sujit Kumar Sahoo

Due to its noninvasive character, optical coherence tomography (OCT) has become a popular diagnostic method in clinical settings. However, the low-coherence interferometric imaging procedure is inevitably contaminated by heavy speckle…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Yongqiang Huang , Wenjun Xia , Zexin Lu , Yan Liu , Hu Chen , Jiliu Zhou , Leyuan Fang , Yi Zhang

Speckle fluctuations seriously limit the interpretability of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Speckle reduction has thus been the subject of numerous works spanning at least four decades. Techniques based on deep neural networks have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Emanuele Dalsasso , Loïc Denis , Florence Tupin

Stack filters are a special case of non-linear filters. They have a good performance for filtering images with different types of noise while preserving edges and details. A stack filter decomposes an input image into several binary images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Maria E. Buemi , Marta Mejail , Julio Jacobo , Alejandro C. Frery , Heitor S. Ramos

Speckle filtering is generally a prerequisite to the analysis of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Tremendous progress has been achieved in the domain of single-image despeckling. Latest techniques rely on deep neural networks to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 Inès Meraoumia , Emanuele Dalsasso , Loïc Denis , Rémy Abergel , Florence Tupin

Deep learning approaches show unprecedented results for speckle reduction in SAR amplitude images. The wide availability of multi-temporal stacks of SAR images can improve even further the quality of denoising. In this paper, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-28 Emanuele Dalsasso , Inès Meraoumia , Loïc Denis , Florence Tupin

In this paper, to break the limit of the traditional linear models for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image despeckling, we propose a novel deep learning approach by learning a non-linear end-to-end mapping between the noisy and clean SAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Qiang Zhang , Qiangqiang Yuan , Jie Li , Zhen Yang , Xiaoshuang Ma

Stack filters are a special case of non-linear filters. They have a good performance for filtering images with different types of noise while preserving edges and details. A stack filter decomposes an input image into stacks of binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-06-11 María Elena Buemi , Alejandro C. Frery , Heitor S. Ramos

Deep learning (DL) in remote sensing has nowadays become an effective operative tool: it is largely used in applications such as change detection, image restoration, segmentation, detection and classification. With reference to synthetic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-19 Sergio Vitale , Giampaolo Ferraioli , Vito Pascazio

This paper presents a despeckling method for Sentinel-1 GRD images based on the recently proposed framework "SAR2SAR": a self-supervised training strategy. Training the deep neural network on collections of Sentinel 1 GRD images leads to a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-28 Nicolas Gasnier , Emanuele Dalsasso , Loïc Denis , Florence Tupin

High-resolution is a key trend in the development of synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which enables the capture of fine details and accurate representation of backscattering properties. However, traditional high-resolution SAR imaging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-11 Guoru Zhou , Zhongqiu Xu , Yizhe Fan , Zhe Zhang , Xiaolan Qiu , Bingchen Zhang , Kun Fu , Yirong Wu

A new image denoising algorithm to deal with the additive Gaussian white noise model is given. Like the non-local means method, the filter is based on the weighted average of the observations in a neighborhood, with weights depending on the…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2011-11-04 Qiyu Jin , Ion Grama , Quansheng Liu

This paper describes a novel projection algorithm, the Projection Onto Span Algorithm (POSA) for wavelet-based superresolution and removing speckle (in wavelet domain) of unknown variance from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Mario Mastriani

The joint interpretation of very high resolution SAR and optical images in dense urban area are not trivial due to the distinct imaging geometry of the two types of images. Especially, the inevitable layover caused by the side-looking SAR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-24 Yuanyuan Wang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Existing position based point cloud filtering methods can hardly preserve sharp geometric features. In this paper, we rethink point cloud filtering from a non-learning non-local non-normal perspective, and propose a novel position based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Jinxi Wang , Jincen Jiang , Xuequan Lu , Meili Wang