SAR image despeckling based on variance constrained convolutional neural network

Tong Zheng; Jun Wang; Peng Lei

doi:10.1117/12.2324252

9 October 2018 SAR image despeckling based on variance constrained convolutional neural network

Tong Zheng, Jun Wang, Peng Lei

Proceedings Volume 10789, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XXIV; 1078924 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2324252
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2018, Berlin, Germany

Abstract

Speckle noise exerts a noticeable impact on the quality of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. It could harm their applications in the remote sensing field, for example, the land cover classification. This paper presents a SAR image despeckling method by using the variance constrained convolutional neural network (CNN). We exploit the significant distinction between speckle noise and ground truth from the viewpoint of their statistical characteristics. The estimated noise variance as well as a weighting factor is introduced into the loss function. It can drive the learning of network to produce the result with more dispersion. After the model training, the variance constrained CNN could generate the despeckled SAR image by means of noise matrix estimation from an input contaminated by strong speckle. Finally, experiments on synthetic SAR images are conducted to demonstrate its effectiveness. It indicates that the proposed method is not only independent of image background in training, but also outperforms the classical SAR despeckling CNN.

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Tong Zheng, Jun Wang, and Peng Lei "SAR image despeckling based on variance constrained convolutional neural network", Proc. SPIE 10789, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XXIV, 1078924 (9 October 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2324252

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