Denoising based on Wavelets and Deblurring via Self-Organizing Map for Synthetic Aperture Radar Images

This work deals with unsupervised image deblurring. We present a new deblurring procedure on images provided by lowresolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) or simply by multimedia in presence of multiplicative (speckle) or additive noise, respectively. The method we propose is defined as a two-step process. First, we use an original technique for noise reduction in wavelet domain. Then, the learning of a Kohonen self-organizing map (SOM) is performed directly on the denoised image to take out it the blur. This technique has been successfully applied to real SAR images, and the simulation results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms.

Authors:

• Mario Mastriani

Keywords:

• Blur
• Kohonen self-organizing map
• noise
• speckle
• synthetic aperture radar.

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