L-statistics based space/spatial-frequency filtering of 2D signals in heavy tailed noise

Most of the commonly used stationary filtering techniques, performed either in the spatial or frequency domains, fail to produce good results for noisy signals with fast varying non-stationary structures. The filtering results could be improved by using space/spatial-frequency based non-stationary filters. Hence, a robust approach to space/spatial-frequency analysis of two-dimensional noisy signals is proposed in this paper. It is based on the two-dimensional L-estimate forms of the short-time Fourier transform, the spectrogram and the S-method. The proposed space/spatial-frequency distributions are used to define the L-estimate space-varying filtering procedure. It is designed for denoising of 2D non-stationary signals affected by the strong impulsive or mixed heavy-tailed and Gaussian noise. The efficiency of the proposed procedure is tested on the examples with interferogram-like images, textures and satellite images.

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