Abstract
This letter proposes a new method for polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) denoising. More precisely, it seeks to address a new statistical approach for weights computation in nonlocal (NL) approaches. The aim is to present a simple criterion using $M$ -estimators and to detect similar pixels in an image. A binary hypothesis test is used to select similar pixels which will be used for covariance matrix estimation together with associated weights. The method is then compared with an advanced state-of-the-art PolSAR denoising method named NL-SAR. The filter performances are measured by a set of different indicators, including relative errors on incoherent target decomposition parameters, coherences, polarimetric signatures, and edge preservation on a set of simulated PolSAR images. Finally, results for RADARSAT-2 PolSAR data are presented.
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