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Object detection in satellite-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery holds immense potential in tasks such as urban monitoring and disaster response. However, the inherent complexities of SAR data and the scarcity of annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Yasin Almalioglu , Andrzej Kucik , Geoffrey French , Dafni Antotsiou , Alexander Adam , Cedric Archambeau

This tutorial paper describes the problem of image reconstruction from interferometric data with a particular focus on the specific problems encountered at optical (visible/IR) wavelengths. The challenging issues in image reconstruction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-20 Éric Thiébaut , Jean-François Giovannelli

In this paper, the design, realization, and demonstration of a broadband millimeter-wave imaging system based on the synthetic aperture radar technique (SAR) are discussed. The proposed system, operating within the frequency range of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Fahimeh Sepehripour , Ahmad Shafiei Alavijeh , Mohammad Fakharzadeh , Amin Khavasi

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides valuable information about the Earth's surface under all weather and illumination conditions. However, the inherent phenomenon of speckle and the presence of sidelobes around bright targets pose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Antoine De Paepe , Pascal Nguyen , Michael Mabelle , Cédric Saleun , Antoine Jouadé , Jean-Christophe Louvigne

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry (InSAR) is performed using repeat-pass geometry. InSAR technique is used to estimate the topographic reconstruction of the earth surface. The main problem of the range-Doppler focusing technique…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-15 Gabriele Costante , Thomas A. Ciarfuglia , Filippo Biondi

Synthetic apertures find applications in many fields, such as radar, radio telescopes, microscopy, sonar, ultrasound, LiDAR, and optical imaging. They approximate the signal of a single hypothetical wide aperture sensor with either an array…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Indrajit Kurmi , David C. Schedl , Oliver Bimber

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can measure the phase with antenna and microwave, which cannot be directly extended to visible light imaging due to phase lost. In this letter, we reported an active remote sensing with visible light via…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-26 Meng Xiang , An Pan , Yiyi Zhao , Xuewu Fan , Hui Zhao , Chuang Li , Baoli Yao

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) Imaging methods are usually based on algorithms of match-filtering type, without considering the scene's characteristic, which causes limited imaging quality. Besides, post-processing steps…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-07 Xu Zhan , Xiaoling Zhang , Shunjun Wei , Jun Shi

In this paper, we introduce an innovative super resolution approach to emerging modes of near-field synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging. Recent research extends convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures from the optical to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Christos Vasileiou , Josiah W. Smith , Shiva Thiagarajan , Matthew Nigh , Yiorgos Makris , Murat Torlak

The earlier works in the context of low-rank-sparse-decomposition (LRSD)-driven stationary synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging have shown significant improvement in the reconstruction-decomposition process. Neither of the proposed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Hamid Reza Hashempour , Majid Moradikia , Hamed Bastami , Ahmed Abdelhadi , Mojtaba Soltanalian

We investigate the inverse source problem for the wave equation, arising in photo- and thermoacoustic tomography. There exist quite a few theoretically exact inversion formulas explicitly expressing solution of this problem in terms of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Ngoc Do , Leonid Kunyansky

Anomaly detection is a key research challenge in computer vision and machine learning with applications in many fields from quality control to radar imaging. In radar imaging, specifically synthetic aperture radar (SAR), anomaly detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Lucian Chauvin , Somil Gupta , Angelina Ibarra , Joshua Peeples

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are usually degraded by a multiplicative noise known as speckle which makes processing and interpretation of SAR images difficult. In this paper, we introduce a transformer-based network for SAR image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Malsha V. Perera , Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Vishal M. Patel

Single image super-resolution (SISR) deals with a fundamental problem of upsampling a low-resolution (LR) image to its high-resolution (HR) version. Last few years have witnessed impressive progress propelled by deep learning methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Wenbo Li , Kun Zhou , Lu Qi , Nianjuan Jiang , Jiangbo Lu , Jiaya Jia

A sparsity-driven algorithm of inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging is proposed. Based on the parametric sparse representation of the received ISAR signal, the problem of ISAR image formation is converted into the joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-08 Gang Li , Wei Rao , Xiqin Wang , Xiang-Gen Xia

In Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR), random missing entries of the received radar echo matrix deteriorate the imaging quality, compromising target distinction from the background. Compressive sensing techniques or matrix completion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Necmettin Bayar , Isin Erer , Deniz Kumlu

The surge of massive antenna arrays in wireless networks calls for the adoption of analog/hybrid array solutions, where multiple antenna elements are driven by a common radio front end to form a beam along a specific angle in order to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Silvio Mandelli , Marcus Henninger , Jinfeng Du

Deep learning in remote sensing has become an international hype, but it is mostly limited to the evaluation of optical data. Although deep learning has been introduced in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data processing, despite successful…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Xiao Xiang Zhu , Sina Montazeri , Mohsin Ali , Yuansheng Hua , Yuanyuan Wang , Lichao Mou , Yilei Shi , Feng Xu , Richard Bamler

Synthetic aperture imaging systems achieve constant azimuth resolution by coherently summating the observations acquired along the aperture path. At this aim, their locations have to be known with subwavelength accuracy. In underwater…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Salvatore Caporale , Yvan Petillot

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging plays a critical role in all-weather, day-and-night remote sensing, yet reconstruction is often challenged by noise, undersampling, and complex scattering scenarios. Conventional methods, including…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Hefei Gao , Tianyao Huang , Letian Guo , Jie He , Yonina C. Eldar