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The speckle noise inherent in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery significantly degrades image quality and complicates subsequent analysis. Given that SAR speckle is multiplicative and Gamma-distributed, effectively despeckling SAR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Junhyuk Heo

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are subject to prominent speckle noise, which is generally considered a purely multiplicative noise process. In theory, this multiplicative noise is that the ratio of the standard deviation to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Mario Mastriani , Alberto E. Giraldez

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) despeckling is an important problem in remote sensing as speckle degrades SAR images, affecting downstream tasks like detection and segmentation. Recent studies show that convolutional neural networks(CNNs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Malsha V. Perera , Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Vishal M. Patel

The statistical properties of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image texture reveals useful target characteristics. It is well-known that these images are affected by speckle, and prone to contamination as double bounce and corner reflectors.…

Applications · Statistics 2018-10-02 Débora Chan , Andrea Rey , Juliana Gambini , Alejandro C. Frery

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images contain a huge amount of information, however, the number of practical use-cases is limited due to the presence of speckle noise in them. In recent years, deep learning based techniques have brought…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-24 Shrey Dabhi , Kartavya Soni , Utkarsh Patel , Priyanka Sharma , Manojkumar Parmar

Synthetic aperture radar has the ability to work 24/7 and 24/7, and has high application value. Propose a new SAR image matching algorithm based on multi class features, mainly using two different types of features: straight lines and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Mazhi Qiang , Fengming Zhou

In this paper, we proposed to investigate unsupervised anomaly detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Our approach considers anomalies as abnormal patterns that deviate from their surroundings but without any prior knowledge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Max Muzeau , Chengfang Ren , Sébastien Angelliaume , Mihai Datcu , Jean-Philippe Ovarlez

High-resolution is a key trend in the development of synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which enables the capture of fine details and accurate representation of backscattering properties. However, traditional high-resolution SAR imaging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-11 Guoru Zhou , Zhongqiu Xu , Yizhe Fan , Zhe Zhang , Xiaolan Qiu , Bingchen Zhang , Kun Fu , Yirong Wu

Along with the improvement of radar technologies, Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Inverse SAR (ISAR) has come to be an active research area. SAR/ISAR are radar techniques to generate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Carlos Pena-Caballero , Elifaleth Cantu , Jesus Rodriguez , Adolfo Gonzales , Osvaldo Castellanos , Angel Cantu , Megan Strait , Jae Son , Dongchul Kim

In Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging, despeckling is very important for image analysis,whereas speckle is known as a kind of multiplicative noise caused by the coherent imaging system. During the past three decades, various algorithms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Qianqian Zhang , Ruizhi Sun

We study synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging and motion estimation of complex scenes consisting of stationary and moving targets. We use the classic SAR setup with a single antenna emitting signals and receiving the echoes from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Liliana Borcea , Thomas Callaghan , George Papanicolaou

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms perform visual-inertial estimation via filtering or batch optimization methods. Empirical evidence suggests that filtering algorithms are computationally faster, while optimization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-05 Amay Saxena , Chih-Yuan Chiu , Joseph Menke , Ritika Shrivastava , Shankar Sastry

Through-wall synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging is of significant interest for security purposes, in particular when using multi-static SAR systems consisting of multiple distributed radar transmitters and receivers to improve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Francis Watson , Daniel Andre , William Robert Breckon Lionheart

Benefiting from a relatively larger aperture's angle, and in combination with a wide transmitting bandwidth, near-field synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides a high-resolution image of a target's scattering distribution-hot spots.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Xu Zhan , Xiaoling Zhang , Wensi Zhang , Jun Shi , Shunjun Wei , Tianjiao Zeng

The wavelet shrinkage denoising approach is able to maintain local regularity of a signal while suppressing noise. However, the conventional wavelet shrinkage based methods are not time-scale adaptive to track the local time-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Mario Mastriani , Alberto E. Giraldez

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) has achieved a prominent position as a remote imaging method. However, PolSAR images are contaminated by speckle noise due to the coherent illumination employed during the data acquisition.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Abraão D. C. Nascimento , Michelle M. Horta , Alejandro C. Frery , Renato J. Cintra

We present a progressive image decomposition method based on a novel non-linear filter named Sub-window Variance filter. Our method is specifically designed for image detail enhancement purpose; this application requires extraction of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Kin-Ming Wong

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

Speckle noise poses a significant challenge in maintaining the quality of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, so SAR despeckling techniques have drawn increasing attention. Despite the tremendous advancements of deep learning in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Xuran Hu , Ziqiang Xu , Zhihan Chen , Zhengpeng Feng , Mingzhe Zhu , LJubisa Stankovic