TENSOR BASED MEAN-SHIFT POLSAR IMAGE ENHANCEMENT

The mean-shift approach uses a local estimation of the pdf and moves every data points toward the modes. The direction is calculated from the mean value of surrounding points weighted by a Gaussian kernel. An advantage of the technique is that both radiometric and spatial information could be used in the weighted mean calculation. For polarimetric SAR images, we use likelihood ratio as radiometric similarity or distance measure. The spatial distance between pixels is also used with a Gaussian weight. Contours are well preserved because pixels on one side are dissimilar to pixels on the other side. To improve contour preservation, we examine how the tensor of pixel position can be integrated into the weight calculation. The tensor is calculated from weighted pixel position inside a window. Good PolSAR image smoothing is obtained.