Optimal Detection Of Object Boundaries In Uncorrelated Speckle

Alan C. Bovik; David C. Murson Jr.

doi:10.1117/12.7973989

1 November 1986 Optimal Detection Of Object Boundaries In Uncorrelated Speckle

Alan C. Bovik, David C. Murson Jr.

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 25, Issue 11, 251246 (November 1986). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7973989

Abstract

We describe several techniques for detecting object boundaries in images immersed in speckle noise. Based on the assumption that the image speckle is uncorrelated, optimal statistical procedures are formulated using local tests for changes in intensity. The first method described is parametric: the average values taken from adjacent image neighborhoods are ratioed and compared to a threshold statistic. A cooperative scheme is then described in which the parametric statistic is applied only at the zero crossings of the image resulting from a convolution with a narrowband differential operator. A non-parametric procedure based on a linear rank statistic is also described, which can be shown to be locally most powerful (among rank tests) under the noise assumption. Examples illustrate the effectiveness of each method.

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Alan C. Bovik and David C. Murson Jr. "Optimal Detection Of Object Boundaries In Uncorrelated Speckle," Optical Engineering 25(11), 251246 (1 November 1986). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.7973989

Published: 1 November 1986

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