Low-contrast Edge Enhancing Anisotropic Diffusion for Speckle Reduction

This paper deals with anisotropic diffusion in image affected by speckle. The classical SRAD can remove speckle efficiently, but blur the low-contrast edges. To solve this problem, a low-contrast edge enhancement method based on anisotropic diffusion for speckle reducing is present. The method extends the SRAD to a matrix anisotropic diffusion, and suppresses the diffusion across edges while encourages diffusion along edges. Experimental results showed that the proposed method can suppress the speckle and protect low-contrast edges efficiently.