We propose a new method for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image despeckling, which leverages information drawn from coregistered optical imagery. Filtering is performed by patchwise nonlocal means, working exclusively on SAR data. However, the filtering weights are computed by taking into account also the optical guide, which is much cleaner than the SAR image, and hence more discriminative. To avoid injecting optical-domain information into the filtered image, an SAR-domain statistical test is preliminarily performed to reject right away any risky predictor. Experiments on two SAR-optical data sets prove the proposed method to suppress very effectively the speckle, preserving structural details, and without introducing significant filtering artifacts. Overall, the proposed method compares favorably with all the state-of-the-art despeckling filters, and also with our own previous optical-guided filter.

Guided patchwise nonlocal SAR despeckling / Vitale, S.; Cozzolino, D.; Scarpa, G.; Verdoliva, L.; Poggi, G.. - In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING. - ISSN 0196-2892. - 57:9(2019), pp. 6484-6498. [10.1109/TGRS.2019.2906412]

Guided patchwise nonlocal SAR despeckling

Cozzolino D.;Scarpa G.;Verdoliva L.;Poggi G.
2019

Abstract

We propose a new method for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image despeckling, which leverages information drawn from coregistered optical imagery. Filtering is performed by patchwise nonlocal means, working exclusively on SAR data. However, the filtering weights are computed by taking into account also the optical guide, which is much cleaner than the SAR image, and hence more discriminative. To avoid injecting optical-domain information into the filtered image, an SAR-domain statistical test is preliminarily performed to reject right away any risky predictor. Experiments on two SAR-optical data sets prove the proposed method to suppress very effectively the speckle, preserving structural details, and without introducing significant filtering artifacts. Overall, the proposed method compares favorably with all the state-of-the-art despeckling filters, and also with our own previous optical-guided filter.
2019
Guided patchwise nonlocal SAR despeckling / Vitale, S.; Cozzolino, D.; Scarpa, G.; Verdoliva, L.; Poggi, G.. - In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING. - ISSN 0196-2892. - 57:9(2019), pp. 6484-6498. [10.1109/TGRS.2019.2906412]
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