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X-ray polarimetric measurements are based on studying the distribution of the directions of scattered photons or photoelectrons and on the search of a sinusoidal modulation with a period of {\pi}. We developed two tools for investigating…

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Despeckling is a crucial noise reduction task in improving the quality of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Directly obtaining noise-free SAR images is a challenging task that has hindered the development of accurate despeckling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Shunya Kato , Masaki Saito , Katsuhiko Ishiguro , Sol Cummings

In this paper, we propose a Boundary-aware Graph Reasoning (BGR) module to learn long-range contextual features for semantic segmentation. Rather than directly construct the graph based on the backbone features, our BGR module explores a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Haoteng Tang , Haozhe Jia , Weidong Cai , Heng Huang , Yong Xia , Liang Zhan

We conduct a small-scale pathfinding survey designed to identify the average polarization properties of the diffuse ISM locally at the lowest dust content regions. We perform deep optopolarimetric surveys within three $\sim 15' \times 15'$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-15 R. Skalidis , G. V. Panopoulou , K. Tassis , V. Pavlidou , D. Blinov , I. Komis , I. Liodakis

Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) images are establishing as an important source of information in remote sensing applications. The most complete format this type of imaging produces consists of complex-valued Hermitian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-04 Leonardo Torres , Antonio C. Medeiros , Alejandro C. Frery

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

Currently, numerous remote sensing satellites provide a huge volume of diverse earth observation data. As these data show different features regarding resolution, accuracy, coverage, and spectral imaging ability, fusion techniques are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-29 Hossein Bagheri , Michael Schmitt , Pablo d'Angelo , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Spatial data collected worldwide at a huge number of locations are frequently used in environmental and climate studies. Spatial modelling for this type of data presents both methodological and computational challenges. In this work we…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-11-16 Fedele Greco , Massimo Ventrucci , Elisa Castelli

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images are widely used in disaster detection and military reconnaissance and so on. However, their interpretation faces some challenges, e.g., deficiency of labeled data, inadequate utilization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-11 Qigong Sun , Xiufang Li , Lingling Li , Xu Liu , Fang Liu , Licheng Jiao

With the prevalence of image editing techniques, users can create fantastic synthetic images, but the image quality may be compromised by the color/illumination discrepancy between the manipulated region and background. Inharmonious region…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Penghao Wu , Li Niu , Liqing Zhang

This paper introduces Bayesian supervised and unsupervised segmentation algorithms aimed at oceanic segmentation of SAR images. The data term, \emph{i.e}., the density of the observed backscattered signal given the region, is modeled by a…

Applications · Statistics 2010-07-29 Sónia Pelizzari , José M. Bioucas-Dias

This paper describes an interdisciplinary approach to geometry modeling of geospatial boundaries. The objective is to extract surfaces from irregular spatial patterns using differential geometry and obtain coherent directional predictions…

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Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are widely used in remote sensing. Interpreting SAR images can be challenging due to their intrinsic speckle noise and grayscale nature. To address this issue, SAR colorization has emerged as a research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Kangqing Shen , Gemine Vivone , Xiaoyuan Yang , Simone Lolli , Michael Schmitt

An innovative 3-D radar imaging technique is developed for fast and efficient identification and characterization of radar backscattering components of complex objects, when the collected scattered field is made of polarization-diverse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Pierre Minvielle , Pierre Massaloux , Jean-François Giovannelli

In this paper we present a method for direct evaluation of generalized B-splines (GB-splines) via the local representation of these curves as piecewise functions. To accomplish this we introduce a local structure that makes GB-spline curves…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-15 Ian D. Henriksen , Emily J. Evans , Derek C. Thomas

The annotation of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images is a labor-intensive and time-consuming process. Therefore, classifying PolSAR images with limited labels is a challenging task in remote sensing domain. In recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Yuchen Wang , Ziyi Guo , Haixia Bi , Danfeng Hong , Chen Xu

Supervised machine learning requires a large amount of labeled data to achieve proper test results. However, generating accurately labeled segmentation maps on remote sensing imagery, including images from synthetic aperture radar (SAR), is…

Image deblurring techniques play important roles in many image processing applications. As the blur varies spatially across the image plane, it calls for robust and effective methods to deal with the spatially-variant blur problem. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Chongyang Zhang , Weiyao Lin , Wei Li , Bing Zhou , Jun Xie , Jijia Li

Circular-harmonic spectra are a compact representation of local image features in two dimensions. It is well known that the computational complexity of such transforms is greatly reduced when polar separability is exploited in steerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Hugh L Kennedy

In this paper we develop a deforestation detection pipeline that incorporates optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data. A crucial component of the pipeline is the construction of anomaly maps of the optical data, which is done using…