Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 55, Issue 4, 041004(2018)

Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Filtering Based on Clustering Three-Dimensional Block-Matching

Yunjun Zhan1、*, Tengda Dai1, Jiejun Huang1, Yusen Dong1, Fawang Ye1, Cong Tang1, and Meng Wang1
Author Affiliations
  • 1 National Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Information and Image Analysis Technology, CNNC Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology, Beijing 100029, China
  • 1 School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China
  • 1 School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
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    Three-dimensional block-matching (BM3D) algorithm can effectively suppress the noise in stationary signal. However, it is not feasible for the speckle noise in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image with random characteristics due to the single 3D transform threshold and the local neighborhood for searching similar blocks. We propose a BM3D algorithm based on K-Mean clustering for SAR image denoising. First, we calculate the feature vector according to the mean, variance, and poor value, and estimate noise variance of each image block. The adaptive 3D transform threshold will be determined through the estimated noise variance. Second, we can find similar image blocks of reference image block in the corresponding class of image blocks, and can find global similar image blocks quickly. The experiments demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieves better visual effect and and higher peak signal to noise ratio than the BM3D algorithm and non-local mean algorithm.

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    Yunjun Zhan, Tengda Dai, Jiejun Huang, Yusen Dong, Fawang Ye, Cong Tang, Meng Wang. Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Filtering Based on Clustering Three-Dimensional Block-Matching[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2018, 55(4): 041004

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    Paper Information

    Category: Image processing

    Received: Sep. 15, 2017

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Sep. 11, 2018

    The Author Email: Zhan Yunjun (zhanyj@whut.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP55.041004

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