Title
Statistical Properties of an Unassisted Image Quality Index for SAR Imagery.
Abstract
The M estimator is a recently proposed image-quality index used to evaluate the despeckling operation in SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) data. It is used also to rank despeckling filters and to improve their design. As a difference with traditional image-quality estimators, it operates not on the filtered result but on a derived one, i.e., the ratio image. However, a deep statistical analysis of its properties remains open and, with it, the ability to use it as a test statistic. In this work, we focus on obtaining insights into its distribution as well as on exploring other remarkable statistical properties of this unassisted estimator. This study is performed through EDA (Exploratory Data Analysis) and the well-known ANOVA (ANalysis Of VAriance). We test our results on a set of simulated SAR data and provide guides to enrich the M estimator to extend its capabilities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/rs11040385
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
speckle,SAR,despeckling,image-quality index,M estimator,ANOVA
Computer vision,Remote sensing,Image quality,Artificial intelligence,Geology
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
11
4
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
25
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luis Gomez1376.88
Raydonal Ospina2398.46
Alejandro C. Frery336838.29