Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2012, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (6): 629-634.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2012.06.012

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De-noising of SAR Images Based on Shearlets Transform

LIU Shuai-qi, HU Shao-hai, XIAO Yang   

  1. Institute of Information Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
  • Received:2011-06-10 Revised:2011-12-31 Online:2012-11-27 Published:2011-12-31

Abstract: This paper proposes a de-noising algorithm for SAR images based on Shearlets transform. Shearlets transformation is multi-scale geometric analysis which possesses the advantages of Contourlet transform and Curvelet transform. For a singular curve or surface containing C2 high-dimensional signals, it is an optimal approximation. We apply Shearlets to approach SAR images, and use a bivariate threshold according to the Bayesian estimation theory to perform image de-noising. The obtained results show an increase of 2 dB in PSNR as compared to the Contourlet-based method with a bivariate threshold. Compared with the nonsubsampled Contourlet method with a bivariate threshold, the proposed method gives a higher PSNR and smoother denoised images. In addition, computation complexity is reduced.

Key words: de-nosing, Shearlets, Contourlet, synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

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