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Reflection removal is challenging due to complex light interactions, where reflections obscure important details and hinder scene understanding. Polarization naturally provides a powerful cue to distinguish between reflected and transmitted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Mingde Yao , Menglu Wang , King-Man Tam , Lingen Li , Tianfan Xue , Jinwei Gu

Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) has proven highly effective in improving model generalization in machine learning tasks. However, SAM employs a fixed hyperparameter associated with the regularization to characterize the sharpness of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jinping Zou , Xiaoge Deng , Tao Sun

This paper proposes a new Bayesian strategy for the smooth estimation of altimetric parameters. The altimetric signal is assumed to be corrupted by a thermal and speckle noise distributed according to an independent and non identically…

Applications · Statistics 2016-04-20 Abderrahim Halimi , Corinne Mailhes , Jean-Yves Tourneret , Hichem Snoussi

Simulation of radar cross-sections (RCS) of pedestrians at automotive radar frequencies forms a key tool for software verification test beds for advanced driver assistance systems. Two commonly used simulation methods are: the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-01 Yoshana Deep , Patrick Held , Shobha Sundar Ram , Dagmar Steinhauser , Anshu Gupta , Frank Gruson , Andreas Koch , Anirban Roy

Greedy pursuit algorithms (GPAs) are widely used to reconstruct sparse signals. Even though many electromagnetic (EM) inverse scattering problems are solved on sparse investigation domains, GPAs have rarely been used for this purpose. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Ali I. Sandhu , Salman A. Shaukat , Abdulla Desmal , Hakan Bagci

The coming flood of CMB polarization experiments, spurred by the recent detection of CMB polarization by DASI and WMAP, will be confronted by many new analysis tasks specific to polarization. For the analysis of CMB polarization data sets,…

The BICEP3 Polarimeter is a small aperture, refracting telescope, dedicated to the observation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at 95GHz. It is designed to target degree angular scale polarization patterns, in particular the…

When inverting solar spectra, image degradation effects that are present in the data are usually approximated or not considered. We develop a data reduction method that takes these issues into account and minimizes the resulting errors. By…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. van Noort

High-resolution astronomical imaging at sub-GHz radio frequencies has been available for more than 15 years, with the VLA at 74 and 330 MHz, and the GMRT at 150, 240, 330 and 610 MHz. Recent developments include wide-bandwidth upgrades for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-21 H. T. Intema

The goals of this work are to provide NIR polarimetry of the stellar sources in the central pc at the resolution of an 8m telescope for the first time, along with new insights into the nature of the known bright bow-shock sources. We use AO…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Rainer M. Buchholz , Gunther Witzel , Rainer Schödel , Andreas Eckart , Markus Bremer , Koraljka Muzic

General solutions of the maser polarization problem are presented for arbitrary absorption coefficients. The results are used to calculate polarization for masers permeated by magnetic fields with arbitrary values of \xB, the ratio of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Moshe Elitzur

The application of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) techniques to classical radar altimetry offers the potential for greatly improved Earth surface mapping. This paper provides an overview of the progress of SAMOSA, Development of SAR…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2008-02-07 C. Martin-Puig , J. Marquez , G. Ruffini , R. K. Raney , J. Benveniste

Gamma-ray polarimetry is a new powerful tool to study the processes responsible for the emission from astrophysical sources and the environments in which this emission takes place. Few successful polarimetric measurements have however been…

The detection of the primordial $B$-mode spectrum of the polarized cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal may provide a probe of inflation. However, observation of such a faint signal requires excellent control of systematic errors.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ata Karakci , Le Zhang , P. M. Sutter , Emory F. Bunn , Andrei Korotkov , Peter Timbie , Gregory S. Tucker , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We present results from an end-to-end simulation pipeline interferometric observations of cosmic microwave background polarization. We use both maximum-likelihood and Gibbs sampling techniques to estimate the power spectrum. In addition, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-15 Emory F. Bunn , Ata Karakci , Paul M. Sutter , Le Zhang , Gregory S. Tucker , Peter T. Timbie , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We present an algorithm for resampling a function from its values on a non-Cartesian grid onto a Cartesian grid. This problem arises in many applications such as MRI, CT, radio astronomy and geophysics. Our algorithm, termed SParse Uniform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-17 Amir Kiperwas , Daniel Rosenfeld , Yonina C. Eldar

Adaptive algorithms belong to an important class of algorithms used in radar target detection to overcome prior uncertainty of interference covariance. The contamination of the empirical covariance matrix by the useful signal leads to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Boris N. Oreshkin

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is considered being a good option for earth observation with its unique advantages. In this paper, we proposed an adaptive ship detector using full-polarization SAR images. First, by thoroughly investigating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-08 Chuan Zhang , Gui Gao , Linlin Zhang , C. Chen , S. Gao , Libo Yao , Shiquan Gou

In modern cosmology, many efforts have been put to detect primordial B-mode of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization from the gravitational waves generated during inflation. Considering the foreground dust contamination of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-17 Zekun Lu , A. Lazarian , Dmitri Pogosyan

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image classification has been investigated vigorously in various remote sensing applications. However, it is still a challenging task nowadays. One significant barrier lies in the speckle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Haixia Bi , Jing Yao , Zhiqiang Wei , Danfeng Hong , Jocelyn Chanussot