Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2019, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (5): 992-999.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-506X.2019.05.09

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Improved non-local mean filtering method for PolSAR images

HAN Ping, JIA Kun, LU Xiaoguang, HAN Binbin   

  1. Tianjin Key Lab for Intelligent Signal and Image Processing, Civil Aviation
    University of China, Tianjin 300300, China
  • Online:2019-04-30 Published:2019-04-26

Abstract:

In order to better preserve the structural information and polarization scattering information while suppressing speckle, an adaptive non-local mean filtering algorithm based on coefficient of variance (C.V) is proposed. The algorithm combines the statistical properties of the image sub-blocks with the polarization-scattering-characteristics of the target points to filter the homogeneous pixels, then introduces the C.V adaptive selection smoothing coefficients to calculate the weights used for filtering, and finally performs non-local mean filtering on the homogeneous pixels. The experimental results of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar data collected by different systems show that compared with the refined LEE filter, NL-Pretest filter and the latest filter, the proposed algorithm can effectively remove the speckle noise, and the edge and polarization scattering characteristics of the image are better maintained.

Key words: polarimetric  synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image, nonlocal means filter, coefficient of variance (C.V), polarization scattering characteristics, homogeneous pixel screening

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