Denoising and SAR Image Classification with K-SVD Algorithm

Abstract

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is not only having the characteristic of obtaining images during all-day, all-weather, but also provides object information which is distinctive from visible and infrared sensors. but, SAR images have more speckles noise and fewer bands. This paper propose a method for denoising, feature extraction and classification of SAR images. Initially the image was denoised using K-Singular Value Decomposition (K-SVD) algorithm. Then the Gray Level Histogram (GLH) and Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) are used for extraction of features. Secondly, the extracted feature vectors from the first step were combined using the correlation analysis to decrease the dimensionality of the feature spaces. Thirdly, Classification of SAR images was done in Sparse Representations Classification (SRC) and Support Vector Machines (SVMs). The results indicate that the performance of the introduce SAR classification method is good. The above mentioned classifications techniques are enhanced and performance parameters are computed using MATLAB 2014a software.