Zhao Zhongmin, Zhao Yongjun, Niu Chaoyang. Improved polarimetric SAR speckle filter based on non-local means[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2013, 18(8): 1038-1044. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20130819.
The Bayesian non-local means filter is adapted to the polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) multiplicative speckle noise
which effectively reduces the speckle noise while keeping the details. Through analyzing the speckle statistics of multi-look SAR images combined with Bayesian non-local means filter
we conclusde that the similarity function in the multi-look SAR image is according to that of the single-look SAR image
which is proved in this paper. Then
a new amended similarity function is proposed. Finally
an adaptive filtering parameter selection method is proposed based on similarity between pels to solve the problem that a fixed parameter could influence the filter performance. The proposed method is validated on real polarimetric SAR images through comparisons with the original algorithm.