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SAR image filtering based on the heavy-tailed Rayleigh model

Authors :
Ercan E. Kuruoglu
Alin Achim
Josiane Zerubia
Source :
13th European Signal Processing conference, Antalya, 4-8 september 2005, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Achim A.; Kuruoglu E.E.; Zerubia J./congresso_nome:13th European Signal Processing conference/congresso_luogo:Antalya/congresso_data:4-8 september 2005/anno:2005/pagina_da:/pagina_a:/intervallo_pagine, IEEE transactions on image processing 15 (2006): 2686–2693. doi:10.1109/TIP.2006.877362, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Achim A.; Kuruoglu E. E.; Zerubia J./titolo:SAR image filtering based on the heavy-tailed rayleigh model/doi:10.1109%2FTIP.2006.877362/rivista:IEEE transactions on image processing/anno:2006/pagina_da:2686/pagina_a:2693/intervallo_pagine:2686–2693/volume:15
Publication Year :
2006

Abstract

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are inherently affected by a signal dependent noise known as speckle, which is due to the radar wave coherence. In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive despeckling filter and derive a maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimator for the radar cross section (RCS). We first employ a logarithmic transformation to change the multiplicative speckle into additive noise. We model the RCS using the recently introduced heavy-tailed Rayleigh density function, which was derived based on the assumption that the real and imaginary parts of the received complex signal are best described using the alpha-stable family of distribution. We estimate model parameters from noisy observations by means of second-kind statistics theory, which relies on the Mellin transform. Finally, we compare the proposed algorithm with several classical speckle filters applied on actual SAR images. Experimental results show that the homomorphic MAP filter based on the heavy-tailed Rayleigh prior for the RCS is among the best for speckle removal.

Details

ISSN :
10577149
Volume :
15
Issue :
9
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....05d38a9d619f8fb0baa0f2f5e6587c26