A new denoising system for SONAR images

  • Authors:
  • Alexandru Isar;Sorin Moga;Dorina Isar

  • Affiliations:
  • Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty, Politehnica University, Timisoara, Romania;Institut TELECOM, TELECOM Bretagne, Lab STICC, CNRS, UMR, Brest, France;Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty, Politehnica University, Timisoara, Romania

  • Venue:
  • Journal on Image and Video Processing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The SONAR images are perturbed by speckle noise. The use of speckle reduction filters is necessary to optimize the image exploitation procedures. This paper presents a new denoising method in the wavelet domain, which tends to reduce the speckle, preserving the structural features and textural information of the scene. Shift-invariance associated with good directional selectivity is important for the use of a wavelet transform (WT) in many fields of image processing. Generally, complex wavelet transforms, for example, the Double Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (DT-CWT) have these useful properties. In this paper, we propose the use of the DT-CWT in association with Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) filters. Such systems carry out different quality denoising in regions with different homogeneity degree. We propose a solution for the reduction of this unwanted effect based on diversity enhancement. The corresponding denoising algorithm is simple and fast. Some simulation results prove the performance obtained.