De-speckling Convolutional Neural Network and Classification Method for SAR Images

In real-world applications, different problems can adopt different models. Most of the existing denoising methods use the framework of deep learning, and the most commonly used denoised algorithm evaluation indicators, such as PSNR, MSE, etc., all without exception, require pictures’ ground truth which is needed as a reference. However, there are few real and noise-free pictures in the field of image denoising, only the noise reduction map can be compared with the noise map, which seems to be less persuasive. Therefore, this paper proposes a new criterion for judging the denoising model. The most important thing is that this method does not require noiseless images compared to PSNR when testing. Moreover, we improved the denoising model and verified the reliability of the criterion. At the same time, we conduct statistics on the recognition rate of different types of targets, and analyze the trend of misjudgment. In this paper, the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image dataset is used as an experimental sample, and different noise parameters are used to obtain denoising data sets with different noise levels. Then we use different denoising models such as DN-CNN to process the data set. Finally, the CNN classification model is used for screening comparison. In this paper, the experimental results show that it is feasible to use classification to judge denoising, so based on this feasibility, this paper modified the denoising network and used classification to judge. The results show that the denoising effect is better and the classification accuracy is higher, that is, the denoising and classification are a complementary relationship.