Distortion measures for wavelet compression of SAR images in ATR

Author

Quincy, E.A. ; Stafford, R.B. ; Holloway, C.L. ; Cotton, M.G. ; Ali, A.S.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Telecommun. Sci., Nat. Telecommun. & Inf. Admin., Boulder, CO, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

20-22 Aug 1997

Firstpage

310

Abstract

This research investigates and develops distortion measures for assessment of wavelet compression effects on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. The end objective is to select those measures that relate most directly to automatic target recognition (ATR) performance. Windowed measures were developed that relate to ATR feature size. These were the most sensitive to distortion, and they provide an effective method for assessing tradeoff between compression and distortion

Keywords

data compression; feature extraction; image coding; radar imaging; radar target recognition; synthetic aperture radar; transform coding; wavelet transforms; ATR; SAR images; automatic target recognition; distortion measures; feature size; synthetic aperture radar; wavelet compression; windowed measures; Degradation; Discrete wavelet transforms; Distortion measurement; Energy measurement; Filters; Image coding; Image reconstruction; PSNR; Target recognition; Wavelet analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, 1997. 10 Years PACRIM 1987-1997 - Networking the Pacific Rim. 1997 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3905-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PACRIM.1997.619962

Filename

619962