NL-SAR: a unified Non-Local framework for resolution-preserving (Pol)(In)SAR denoising
DELEDALLE, Charles-Alban
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique [CNRS]
Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux [IMB]
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique [CNRS]
Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux [IMB]
DELEDALLE, Charles-Alban
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique [CNRS]
Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux [IMB]
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique [CNRS]
Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux [IMB]
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en
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IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 2015-04-01, vol. 53, n° 4, p. 2021 - 2038
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Résumé en anglais
Speckle noise is an inherent problem in coherent imaging systems like synthetic aperture radar. It creates strong intensity fluctuations and hampers the analysis of images and the estimation of local radiometric, polarimetric ...Lire la suite >
Speckle noise is an inherent problem in coherent imaging systems like synthetic aperture radar. It creates strong intensity fluctuations and hampers the analysis of images and the estimation of local radiometric, polarimetric or interferometric properties. SAR processing chains thus often include a multi-looking (i.e., averaging) filter for speckle reduction, at the expense of a strong resolution loss. Preservation of point-like and fine structures and textures requires to adapt locally the estimation. Non-local means successfully adapt smoothing by deriving data-driven weights from the similarity between small image patches. The generalization of non-local approaches offers a flexible framework for resolution-preserving speckle reduction. We describe a general method, NL-SAR, that builds extended non-local neighborhoods for denoising amplitude, polarimetric and/or interferometric SAR images. These neighborhoods are defined on the basis of pixel similarity as evaluated by multi-channel comparison of patches. Several non-local estimations are performed and the best one is locally selected to form a single restored image with good preservation of radar structures and discontinuities. The proposed method is fully automatic and handles single and multi-look images, with or without interferometric or polarimetric channels. Efficient speckle reduction with very good resolution preservation is demonstrated both on numerical experiments using simulated data, airborne and spaceborne radar images. The source code of a parallel implementation of NL-SAR is released with the paper.< Réduire
Mots clés en anglais
Polarimetry
Estimation
Non-local means
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
Interferometry
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