n-1 M-1 -2ni (ot +)
F(u,v) = NEN X ^ s(n,mje (5)
n=0 m=0
with u and v the discrete frequencies in x and y-direction and n,m the image coordi-
nates of pixel s(n,m) (KOLOUCH et al. 1981).
Fig.4 shows the original image with its logarithmic power spectrum in fig.5.
Fig. 4: Original scene Fig. 5: Power spectrum and filter design
There are no characteristic maxima on the v-axis which point to a narrow-band scan-
line noise.
One can find a relative uniform distribution of the noise over the whole frequency
axis. Therefore a seperation of noise and signal is very difficult. The same effect
is shown by the one-dimensional power spectrum of an image column in fig.6. Instead
of an intensity decrease with higher frequencies there is a plateau-like behaviour.
Frequency domain filter design and realization
For the estimation of those parts of the power spectrum which have to be filtered
channel 9 (A = 810 * 50 um) with nearly no noise, is transformed into frequency do-
main. Fig.7 shows the v-frequency axis of thermal channel 11 (A = 10 * 2 um) and
channel 9.
For detection of scan-line noise in the thermal channel formula (6) is used.
|F41(0,v)|. 7 |Fg(0,v)| 1 (6)
F,, and F, are the normalized spectra of channel 11 and 9 of the scanner imagery
rédpectivdly. The lower part of fig.7 contents the log. ratio of both. There is a
strong increase of intensity with increasing frequency. Formula (6) is nearly ful-
filled for all frequencies Fr ~ 0.2 Fy with Fy as Nyquist-frequency according to the
sampling theorem.
Using this analysis a narrow-band two-dimensional filter-transfer-function H(u,v)
around the v-axis is designed with smoothed corners by a sinusoidale mask to avoid
oscillation while filtering (SFB 149, 1981). Fig.5 shows the filter-position in the
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