Atomic Decomposition based detector for denoising in ISAR imaging

We have investigated two different strategies to improve the quality of ISAR images corrupted by Gaussian noise. The images are generated using a Time Frequency technique known as Atomic Decomposition (AD). The first strategy is a classical denoising technique based on an AD detector developed for signal detection in noise. The second technique separates the atoms extracted through AD by their parameters in two classes: atoms coming from noise and atoms coming from signal components. Compared to the first one, the second technique requires a greater knowledge about the signal components.

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