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Application of EMD-based speckle reduction and tophat transform in preprocessing of ship detection

  • AI Jia-Qiu ,
  • QI Xiang-Yang ,
  • LIU Fan ,
  • SHI Li
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  • 1. Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
    2. Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Received date: 2009-11-09

  Revised date: 2010-01-06

  Online published: 2010-07-15

Abstract

In this paper, a new algorithm is proposed based on the EMD (empirical mode decomposition) speckle reduction and tophat transform. First, we use EMD to every column signal of the image to get the IMF signals, deduce the first and second IMF signals from the original signal to get a coarse-processed image, and then do the same to the row signal of the coarse-processed image. The speckle can be greatly reduced with this algorithm. Furthermore, the local background of non-homogeneity caused by waves is greatly reduced with tophat transform. The signal-to-clutter-rate of the image is greatly enhanced, which is favorable for detection. The simulation results show the effectiveness of the algorithm.

Cite this article

AI Jia-Qiu , QI Xiang-Yang , LIU Fan , SHI Li . Application of EMD-based speckle reduction and tophat transform in preprocessing of ship detection[J]. Journal of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2010 , 27(4) : 517 -522 . DOI: 10.7523/j.issn.2095-6134.2010.4.013

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