Speckle Noise Filtering Using Back-Propagation Multi-Layer Perceptron Network in Synthetic Aperture Radar Image

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) are imaging Radar, it uses electromagnetic radiation to illuminate the scanned surface and produce high resolution images in all-weather condition, day and night. Interference of signals causes noise and degrades the quality of the image, it causes serious difficulty in analyzing the images. Speckle is multiplicative noise that inherently exist in SAR images. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) have the capability of learning and is gaining popularity in SAR image processing. Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) is a feed forward artificial neural network model that consists of an input layer, several hidden layers, and an output layer. We have simulated MLP with two hidden layer in Matlab. Speckle noises were added to the target SAR image and applied MLP for speckle noise reduction. It is found that speckle noise in SAR images can be reduced by using MLP. We have considered Log-sigmoid, TanSigmoid and Linear Transfer Function for the hidden layers. The MLP network are trained using Gradient descent with momentum back propagation, Resilient back propagation and Levenberg-Marquardt back propagation and comparatively evaluated the performance. Speckle Noise Filtering Using Back-Propagation MultiLayer Perceptron Network in Synthetic Aperture Radar Image

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