一种散斑模式的噪声统计模型与自适应滤波方法

本文介绍了一种实际散斑模式的数学模型和噪声统计模型,并提出了一种针对这种模型的自适应次优滤波方法。文中在分析了散斑模式及其噪声性质的基础上,利用其局部方向性特征,结合最优线性滤波器和非线性滤波器的特点,对线性最小均方误差滤波器进行了自适应逼近。实验结果表明,对散斑模式而言,本文的滤波方法与其它常用的图象滤波方法相比,具有更好的去噪和边缘保护性能,并且具有较好的滤波韧性。     

自适应调节滤波强度的SAR图像非局部平均抑斑算法

为提升对SAR图像乘性相干斑的抑制水平与边缘保护性能,该文提出了一种可自适应调节滤波强度(AFS)的SAR图像非局部平均(NLM)抑斑新算法(AFS-NLM)。该算法利用Frost滤波图像计算的局部均值与方差来改善SAR图像场景参量的估计,形成了一种能更好刻画SAR图像同质区与边缘区的改进Kuan滤波系数。利用局部均值比与改进Kuan滤波系数分别作为新的相似性测量参量与自适应衰减因子,构建了一种更适应SAR图像乘性噪声特性的改进NLM滤波。利用偏平滑参数与偏边缘保护参数控制下的改进NLM滤波,分别替代经典Kuan滤波模型中的像素局部均值与自身灰度值作为加权项,并采用由改进Kuan滤波系数构建的自适应调节因子对二者进行加权平均,从而形成了一种可自适应调节滤波强度的加权滤波新模型。实验表明,该文算法与近期多种先进算法相比,具有更好的相干斑抑制与边缘保护性能。     

An adaptive speckle suppression filter for medical ultrasonic imaging

An adaptive smoothing technique for speckle suppression in medical B-scan ultrasonic imaging is presented. The technique is based on filtering with appropriately shaped and sized local kernels. For each image pixel, a filtering kernel, which fits to the local homogeneous region containing the processed pixel, is obtained through a local statistics based region growing technique. The performance of the proposed filter has been tested on the phantom and tissue images. The results show that the filter effectively reduces the speckle while preserving the resolvable details. The simulation results are presented in a comparative way with two existing speckle suppression methods.     

Two-dimensional adaptive block Kalman filtering of SAR imagery

A method for removing speckle from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery by using 2-D adaptive block Kalman filtering is introduced. The image process is represented by an autoregressive model with a nonsymmetric half-plane (NSHP) region of support. New 2-D Kalman filtering equations are derived which taken into account not only the effect of speckles as multiplicative noise but also the effects of the additive receiver thermal noise and the blur. This method assumes local stationarity within a processing window, whereas the image can be assumed to be globally nonstationary. A recursive identification process using the stochastic Newton approach is also proposed which can be used on-line to estimate the filter parameters based upon the information within each new block of the image. Simulation results on several images are provided to indicate the effectiveness of the proposed method when used to remove the effects of speckle noise as well as those of the additive noise     

基于小波变换的ESPI图像去噪及边缘提取

电子散斑干涉条纹的强噪声特性使其信噪比过低,常用的图像滤波方法对于散斑干涉条纹都存在一定的不足。针对散斑条纹的特点,建立了自适应滤波与小波变换相结合的组合迭代滤波方法。在对散斑条纹预处理基础上,通过选择不同的小波函数以及更改分解层次和函数中的阈值达到不同的滤波效果。经反复试验,对于不同的小波基,采用4层分解,阈值为0.15～0.3时与自适应滤波的迭代效果最好。在滤波的基础上对图像进行了二值化,并采用Sobel算子对其进行边缘提取,最终得到电子散斑干涉条纹的边缘分布图。结果表明,该方法可以有效消除条纹图中的散斑噪声,并且条纹的边缘得以较好的保留。     

基于数学形态学与自适应的超声医学图像滤波方法的研究

超声医学成像作为主要的医学影像技术之一,因其对人体无伤害、实时、价格便宜和使用方便等优点已广泛应用于临床.然而,在成像过程中形成的特有的图像斑点,使得对比度弱的人体软组织中的正常组织和病变组织不易区分,给临床诊断和医学研究带来不便.针对医学超声图像的特点,在研究了几种常用滤波方法后,提出一种自适应中值滤波和形态滤波结合的新方法,并做了实验验证.实验方法是:首先对所选择的医学超声图像施加瑞利噪声,然后采用中值滤波、自适应中值滤波的方法对被污染的图像进行去噪处理,接下来先采用自适应中值滤波对图像进行预处理,抑制斑点噪声,保留必要细节,再采用数学形态学方法进行二次滤波和增强对比度,进一步改善图像质量.最后从去噪图像和评价指标上对三种滤波去噪方法进行了比较.实验证明,新方法优于其他方法.     

Speckle filtering of SAR images based on adaptive windowing

Speckle noise usually occurs in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images owing to coherent processing of SAR data. The most well-known image domain speckle filters are the adaptive filters using local statistics such as the mean and standard deviation. The local statistics filters adapt the filter coefficients based on data within a fixed running window. In these schemes, depending on the window size, there exists trade-off between the extent of speckle noise suppression and the capability of preserving fine details. The authors propose a new adaptive windowing algorithm for speckle noise suppression which solves the problem of window size associated with the local statistics adaptive filters. In the algorithm, the window size is automatically adjusted depending on regional characteristics to suppress speckle noise as much as possible while preserving fine details. Speckle noise suppression gets stronger in homogeneous regions as the window size increases succeedingly. In fine detail regions, by reducing the window size successively, edges and textures are preserved. The fixed-window filtering schemes and the proposed one are applied to both a simulated SAR image and an ERS-1 SAR image to demonstrate the excellent performance of the proposed adaptive windowing algorithm for speckle noise     

Biased motion-adaptive temporal filtering for speckle reduction in echocardiography

Describes a new fully motion-adaptive spatio-temporal filtering technique to reduce the speckle in ultrasound images. The advantages of this approach are demonstrated in echocardiographic boundary detection and in comparison with other techniques. The first stage of many automated echocardiographic image interpretation schemes is filtering to reduce the amount of speckle noise. The authors show how the two-dimensional least mean squares (TDLMS) filter can be configured as a motion-compensated filter for a time sequence of ultrasound images that eliminates the blurring associated with direct averaging. For an image corrupted by multiplicative speckle noise, the mode of the intensity distribution approximates the maximum likelihood estimator. In consequence, the temporal filter's output is biased towards the mode from the mean, using information contained within the speckle itself. A new adaptive algorithm for controlling the filter's convergence is also included. To evaluate performance, application to simulated, phantom, and an in vivo test sequence of the carotid artery are considered in comparison with other techniques. The effect of filtering on edges is of great importance, as these are used by subsequent image interpretation schemes. Quantitative measurements demonstrate the effectiveness of the Biased TDLMS filter, for both noise reduction and edge preservation. Echocardiographic images have a high noise content and suffer from poor contrast. Despite this challenging environment, the Biased TDLMS filter is shown to produce images that are better inputs for subsequent feature extraction. The benefits for echocardiographic images are highlighted by considering the problems of mitral valve analysis and extraction of the left atrium boundary.     

基于Nakagami分布的自适应斑点抑制与边缘增强方法

超声图像中的特殊斑点噪声严重影响了图像质量,针对此问题提出了一种基于Nakagami分布的自适应斑点抑制与边缘增强方法.根据斑点噪声的Nakagami分布模型,设计一个基于斑点局部统计特性的自适应滤波器.并应用"窄条"技术以不同方向与长度的"窄条"来近似图像的局部线性特性,滤波区域采用"窄条"代替常用的方形窗口,其中"窄条"的方向由假设试验优化方法确定,"窄条"长度与斑点的局部统计特性相关.实验证明,该方法在抑制斑点噪声、保留与增强图像边缘和细节方面均具有良好的性能.     

Nonlinear multivariate image filtering techniques

In this paper, nonlinear multivariate image filtering techniques are proposed to handle color images corrupted by noise. First, we briefly review the principle of reduced ordering (R-ordering) and then define three R-orderings by selecting different central locations. Considering noise attenuation, edge preservation, and detail retention, R-ordering based multivariate filters are designed by combining the R-ordering schemes. To implement color image filtering more effectively, we develop them into a locally adaptive version. The output of the adaptive filter is the closest sample to a central location that is a weighted linear combination of the mean, the marginal median, and the center sample. As a result, we study an adaptive hybrid multivariate (AHM) filter consisting of the mean filter, the marginal median filter, and the identity filter. The performance of the two adaptive filtering techniques is compared with that of some nonadaptive ones. The examples of color image filtering show that the adaptive multivariate image filtering gives a rather good performance improvement.     

基于几何模型的SAR图像斑点噪声的抑制

斑点噪声的抑制一直是合成孔径雷达(SAR)图像处理的重要研究课题。本文利用几何模型对合成孔径雷达图像进行滤波。通过对几何模型除噪性能进行分析,提出了一个数值计算的改进格式。新的迭代格式能较好地保留图像的边缘、尖点和细节信息。最后对合成孔径雷达图像进行去噪实验,与小波阈值除噪、Lee滤波进行比较具有更好的滤波效果。     

改进权值算法在物联网噪声过滤中应用

提出了一种自适应线性权值算法过滤传感网散粒噪声,算法首先提取散粒噪声的特征参数,然后对参数进行线性迭代变换,计算获得自适应权值参数,从而有效实现对散粒噪声的过滤。实验结果表明,该算法能过滤传感网中的散粒噪声,且效果良好。     

A minimum misadjustment adaptive FIR filter

The performance of an adaptive filter is limited by the misadjustment resulting from the variance of adapting parameters. This paper develops a method to reduce the misadjustment when the additive noise in the desired signal is correlated. Given a static linear model, the linear estimator that can achieve the minimum parameter variance estimate is known as the best linear unbiased estimator (BLUE). Starting from classical estimation theory and a Gaussian autoregressive (AR) noise model, a maximum likelihood (ML) estimator that jointly estimates the filter parameters and the noise statistics is established. The estimator is shown to approach the best linear unbiased estimator asymptotically. The proposed adaptive filtering method follows by modifying the commonly used mean-square error (MSE) criterion in accordance with the ML cost function. The new configuration consists of two adaptive components: a modeling filter and a noise whitening filter. Convergence study reveals that there is only one minimum in the error surface, and global convergence is guaranteed. Analysis of the adaptive system when optimized by LMS or RLS is made, together with the tracking capability investigation. The proposed adaptive method performs significantly better than a usual adaptive filter with correlated additive noise and tracks a time-varying system more effectively     

Mode filtering to reduce ultrasound speckle for feature extraction

The authors investigate the use of filtering techniques to reduce speckle in ultrasound images, to improve their suitability for later feature extraction. The maximum likelihood estimator for a speckle corrupted image is shown to correspond to the statistical mode but this is difficult to determine for small populations, such as those contained by a filter mask. The truncated median filter approximates the mode by using the order of known image statistics and provides a fully automated image processing technique for speckle filtering. The filter's performance is established using a new quantitative evaluation scheme that closely considers the effect of filtering on edges, a key factor when applying features extraction in automated image interpretation. Application to in vivo and phantom test images shows that the truncated median filter provides clear images with strong edges, of quality exceeding that of other techniques. These benefits are confirmed by the application of feature extraction in arterial wall labelling     

激光主动探测图像散斑自适应滤波抑制方法研究

激光主动照明成像具有作用距离远、系统分辨率高、可在低照度背景等复杂环境下获取目标图像等优点,但探测图像会受散斑噪声干扰.把高斯滤波、均值滤波和自适应滤波方法分别应用到仿真实验中进行散斑噪声抑制,实验表明:与高斯滤波和均值滤波相比,自适应滤波能有效抑制图像噪声,保留图像的边缘和细节信息.利用自适应滤波方法对获取的单帧和多帧累加平均的激光主动探测图像进行散斑抑制实验,使用散斑对比度进行定量分析,结果表明多帧短曝光图像累加平均可有效抑制图像的散斑噪声,自适应滤波可进一步降低图像的散斑噪声.     

Second-order adaptive Volterra system identification based ondiscrete nonlinear Wiener model

The authors present the nonlinear LMS adaptive filtering algorithm based on the discrete nonlinear Wiener (1942) model for second-order Volterra system identification application. The main approach is to perform a complete orthogonalisation procedure on the truncated Volterra series. This allows the use of the LMS adaptive linear filtering algorithm for calculating all the coefficients with efficiency. This orthogonalisation method is based on the nonlinear discrete Wiener model. It contains three sections: a single-input multi-output linear with memory section, a multi-input, multi-output nonlinear no-memory section and a multi-input, single-output amplification and summary section. For a white Gaussian noise input signal, the autocorrelation matrix of the adaptive filter input vector can be diagonalised unlike when using the Volterra model. This dramatically reduces the eigenvalue spread and results in more rapid convergence. Also, the discrete nonlinear Wiener model adaptive system allows us to represent a complicated Volterra system with only few coefficient terms. In general, it can also identify the nonlinear system without over-parameterisation. A theoretical performance analysis of steady-state behaviour is presented. Computer simulations are also included to verify the theory     

抑制SAR图像相干斑的迭代方向滤波算法

为保护SAR图像边缘特征并有效提高对乘性相干斑噪声的抑制性能,该文提出一种基于迭代方向滤波的抑制图像相干斑新算法。该算法先借助高斯-伽马平行窗估计出的比率边缘强度映射(ESM)与方向信息,自适应地控制各向异性高斯核(AGK),生成沿ESM方向分布的具有各向异性支撑区域的局域窗。然后将SAR图像多种局部统计参量联合作为衰减因子,形成与SAR图像区域分布特性相适应的负指数衰减型加权系数,进而将负指数衰减型加权系数与局域窗带方向的各向异性支撑区域结合形成局域加权的方向滤波。最后对SAR图像迭代地进行方向滤波即可实现带边缘保护的相干斑抑制。实验结果表明,与多种抑斑算法相比,该文算法在SAR图像抑斑与边缘保护方面均获得了更好的性能。     

一种基于图像结构保持降低SAR图像斑点噪声的非局部均值滤波

本文提出一种针对合成孔径雷达（SAR）图像保持结构的斑点去除（SPSR）非局部均值滤波算法,它基于图像的非局部自相似性。该SPSR算法的独特之处在于对相似结构中像素的辨识度强,因此可在散斑滤除的过程中避免图像模糊。为缓解散斑噪声对相似性测量的影响,两级过滤方案引入其中。滤波的第一阶段旨在得到一个结构相似性更精确的相似值,然后依据相似度大小对这区域实施强度不一的扩散滤波。与传统滤波器相比,该算法大大提高了散斑滤除的性能,同时,图像的结构保持更完好。     

结构保持的双边滤波极化SAR图像降噪

针对极化合成孔径雷达(Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar, PolSAR)图像相干斑抑制时结构保持的难题,该文提出一种PolSAR图像的双边滤波算法:结构保持的双边滤波(SPBF)。该算法通过结合边缘结构特征和地物散射特性,增强对PolSAR图像结构信息的描述,减少滤波时图像结构信息的损失,实现滤波性能的提高。该算法首先使用边缘检测模板在极化总功率图像(Span)上提取边缘方向,实现自适应选择滤波方向窗;其次,采用Freeman-Durden分解获取像素的散射机制,并根据极化数据的统计分布特性获取地物散射的聚类标记;最终在所选的方向窗中,以聚类标记图为掩膜,利用改进的双边滤波算法对PolSAR数据进行相干斑抑制。真实SAR数据的实验结果表明,该方法能够有效抑制相干斑噪声,同时提高了对图像的边缘、强点目标和极化散射特性的保持能力。     

Fringe-contoured-window sine/cosine filter for saw-tooth phase maps in ESPI

In electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI), because saw-tooth phase map obtained by phase-shifting is inherently full of speckle noise, noise reduction should be carried out to suppress high-level noise before it is unwrapped. In accordance with the feature of the saw-tooth phase map, an adaptive filter method combining the classical sine/cosine filter and the fringe orientation information of the phase map is developed. A fringe orientation map is first generated from the saw-tooth phase map, and then a fringe-contoured window is derived accordingly. Finally, filtering is carried out within the window. Compared with existing filters, it has a better performance on phase jump information preservation without any blurring effect on phase distribution provided that filtering is implemented on the equal-phase window. Moreover, its capability for noise reduction is more powerful. The effectiveness and advantages of the novel filter have been also verified by both simulated and real saw-tooth phase maps.