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Speckle noise poses a significant challenge in maintaining the quality of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, so SAR despeckling techniques have drawn increasing attention. Despite the tremendous advancements of deep learning in…

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The speckle noise inherent in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery significantly degrades image quality and complicates subsequent analysis. Given that SAR speckle is multiplicative and Gamma-distributed, effectively despeckling SAR…

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Speckle noise is a fundamental challenge in coherent imaging systems, significantly degrading image quality. Over the past decades, numerous despeckling algorithms have been developed for applications such as Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)…

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Coherent imaging systems like synthetic aperture radar are susceptible to multiplicative noise that makes applications like automatic target recognition challenging. In this paper, NeighCNN, a deep learning-based speckle reduction algorithm…

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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

Deep learning (DL) has proven to be a suitable approach for despeckling synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. So far, most DL models are trained to reduce speckle that follows a particular distribution, either using simulated noise or a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-15 Adugna G. Mullissa , Diego Marcos , Devis Tuia , Martin Herold , Johannes Reiche

Convolution is a central operation in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which applies a kernel to overlapping regions shifted across the image. However, because of the strong correlations in real-world image data, convolutional kernels…

We propose a new method for SAR image despeckling which leverages information drawn from co-registered optical imagery. Filtering is performed by plain patch-wise nonlocal means, operating exclusively on SAR data. However, the filtering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Sergio Vitale , Davide Cozzolino , Giuseppe Scarpa , Luisa Verdoliva , Giovanni Poggi

Hyperspectral images (HSIs) are susceptible to various noise factors leading to the loss of information, and the noise restricts the subsequent HSIs object detection and classification tasks. In recent years, learning-based methods have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Yuqiao Liu , Yanan Sun , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images contain a huge amount of information, however, the number of practical use-cases is limited due to the presence of speckle noise in them. In recent years, deep learning based techniques have brought…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-24 Shrey Dabhi , Kartavya Soni , Utkarsh Patel , Priyanka Sharma , Manojkumar Parmar

Despeckling is a crucial noise reduction task in improving the quality of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Directly obtaining noise-free SAR images is a challenging task that has hindered the development of accurate despeckling…

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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

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are inherently corrupted by speckle noise, limiting their utility in high-precision applications. While deep learning methods have shown promise in SAR despeckling, most methods employ a single unified…

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Convolutions are one of the most important operations in signal processing. They often involve large arrays and require significant computing time. Moreover, in practice, the signal data to be processed by convolution may be corrupted by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Alina Chertock , Chris Leonard , Semyon Tsynkov , Sergey Utyuzhnikov

Hyperspectral Imaging is a crucial tool in remote sensing which captures far more spectral information than standard color images. However, the increase in spectral information comes at the cost of spatial resolution. Super-resolution is a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-26 Alexander Ulrichsen , Paul Murray , Stephen Marshall , Moncef Gabbouj , Serkan Kiranyaz , Mehmet Yamac , Nour Aburaed

The wavelet shrinkage denoising approach is able to maintain local regularity of a signal while suppressing noise. However, the conventional wavelet shrinkage based methods are not time-scale adaptive to track the local time-scale…

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Compared with traditional seismic noise attenuation algorithms that depend on signal models and their corresponding prior assumptions, removing noise with a deep neural network is trained based on a large training set, where the inputs are…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 Siwei Yu , Jianwei Ma , Wenlong Wang

Speckle reduction is a prerequisite for many image processing tasks in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, as well as all coherent images. In recent years, predominant state-of-the-art approaches for despeckling are usually based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Wensen Feng , Yunjin Chen

In this paper, we proposed to investigate unsupervised anomaly detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Our approach considers anomalies as abnormal patterns that deviate from their surroundings but without any prior knowledge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Max Muzeau , Chengfang Ren , Sébastien Angelliaume , Mihai Datcu , Jean-Philippe Ovarlez

Contrast and quality of ultrasound images are adversely affected by the excessive presence of speckle. However, being an inherent imaging property, speckle helps in tissue characterization and tracking. Thus, despeckling of the ultrasound…

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