Deep speckle noise filtering

Speckle removal from single-channel and multi-dimensional SAR remains a difficult problem. In this paper, we are investigating the use of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), previously applied to the Super-Resolution problem, for speckle removal. Because speckle noise statistics is signal dependent, we are training the neural network on the residual image formed by the ratio of the observed intensity to the local mean. Preliminary results on SAR and PolSAR show the potential of CNN to retrieve lost image details.

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