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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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Xuran Hu , Ziqiang Xu , Zhihan Chen , Zhengpeng Feng , Mingzhe Zhu , LJubisa Stankovic

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

SAR images are affected by multiplicative noise that impairs their interpretations. In the last decades several methods for SAR denoising have been proposed and in the last years great attention has moved towards deep learning based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-18 Sergio Vitale , Giampaolo Ferraioli , Vito Pascazio

Speckle is a multiplicative noise which affects all coherent imaging modalities including Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. The presence of speckle degrades the image quality and adversely affects the performance of SAR image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Malsha V. Perera , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Vishal M. Patel

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

In SAR domain many application like classification, detection and segmentation are impaired by speckle. Hence, despeckling of SAR images is the key for scene understanding. Usually despeckling filters face the trade-off of speckle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Sergio Vitale , Giampaolo Ferraioli , Vito Pascazio

We investigate the task of learning blind image denoising networks from an unpaired set of clean and noisy images. Such problem setting generally is practical and valuable considering that it is feasible to collect unpaired noisy and clean…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Xiaohe Wu , Ming Liu , Yue Cao , Dongwei Ren , Wangmeng Zuo

This letter presents a method of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image despeckling aimed to preserve the detail information while suppressing speckle noise. This method combines the nonlocal self-similarity partition and a proposed modified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Chengwei Sang , Hong Sun , Quisong Xia

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ziqing Ma , Chang Yang , Zhichang Guo , Yao Li

Many microscopy applications are limited by the total amount of usable light and are consequently challenged by the resulting levels of noise in the acquired images. This problem is often addressed via (supervised) deep learning based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Anna S. Goncharova , Alf Honigmann , Florian Jug , Alexander Krull

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)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Ali Zafari , Shirin Jalali

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Sergio Vitale , Giampaolo Ferraioli , Vito Pascazio

There have been many image denoisers using deep neural networks, which outperform conventional model-based methods by large margins. Recently, self-supervised methods have attracted attention because constructing a large real noise dataset…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-31 Yeong Il Jang , Keuntek Lee , Gu Yong Park , Seyun Kim , Nam Ik Cho

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

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

Real noisy-clean pairs on a large scale are costly and difficult to obtain. Meanwhile, supervised denoisers trained on synthetic data perform poorly in practice. Self-supervised denoisers, which learn only from single noisy images, solve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Zejin Wang , Jiazheng Liu , Guoqing Li , Hua Han

Deep learning approaches in image processing predominantly resort to supervised learning. A majority of methods for image denoising are no exception to this rule and hence demand pairs of noisy and corresponding clean images. Only recently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Priyatham Kattakinda , A. N. Rajagopalan

Coherent noise regularly plagues seismic recordings, causing artefacts and uncertainties in products derived from down-the-line processing and imaging tasks. The outstanding capabilities of deep learning in denoising of natural and medical…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-06-02 Sixiu Liu , Claire Birnie , Tariq Alkhalifah

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