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We propose POLAR, a novel radar-guided depth estimation method that introduces polynomial fitting to efficiently transform scaleless depth predictions from pretrained monocular depth estimation (MDE) models into metric depth maps. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Patrick Rim , Hyoungseob Park , Vadim Ezhov , Jeffrey Moon , Alex Wong

A method for segmenting water bodies in optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite images is proposed. It makes use of the textural features of the different regions in the image for segmentation. The method consists in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Victor Manuel San Martin , Alejandra Figliola

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 an iterative scheme designed to recover calibrated I, Q, and U maps from Planck-HFI data using the orbital dipole due to the satellite motion with respect to the Solar System frame. It combines a map reconstruction, based on a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 M. Tristram , C. Filliard , O. Perdereau , S. Plaszczynski , R. Stompor , F. Touze

We present a new iterative rotation inversion technique based on the Simultaneous Algebraic Reconstruction Technique developed for image reconstruction. We describe in detail our algorithmic implementation and compare it to the classical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-17 Sylvain G. Korzennik , Antonio Eff-Darwich

SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) imaging plays a central role in Remote Sensing due to, among other important features, its ability to provide high-resolution, day-and-night and almost weather-independent images. SAR images are affected from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Luis Gomez , Raydonal Ospina , Alejandro C. Frery

Polarization diversity offers a cost- and space-efficient solution to enhance the performance of integrated sensing and communication systems. Polarimetric sensing exploits the signal's polarity to extract details about the target such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Byunghyun Lee , Rang Liu , David J. Love , James V. Krogmeier , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Accurate segmentation of floating debris on water is often compromised by surface glare and changing outdoor illumination. Polarimetric imaging offers a single-sensor route to mitigate water-surface glare that disrupts semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Luis F. W. Batista , Tom Bourbon , Cedric Pradalier

Speckle noise, inherent in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, degrades the performance of the various SAR image analysis tasks. Thus, speckle noise reduction is a critical preprocessing step for smoothing homogeneous regions while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Fatih Nar

A compact and broadband polarimetric imaging platform is presented, based on second-harmonic generation (SHG) in nonlinear flat-optics. The system employs periodic all-dielectric AlGaAs gratings to induce polarization-dependent SH emission,…

This paper addresses the challenge of classifying polarimetric SAR images by leveraging the peculiar characteristics of the polarimetric covariance matrix (PCM). To this end, a general framework to solve a multiple hypothesis test is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Pia Addabbo , Filippo Biondi , Carmine Clemente , Sudan Han , Danilo Orlando , Giuseppe Ricci

In this letter, a methodology is proposed to improve the scattering powers obtained from model-based decomposition using Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) data. The novelty of this approach lies in utilizing the intrinsic…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-05-27 D. Ratha , M. Surendar , A. Bhattacharya

The bilateral filter is a useful nonlinear filter which without smoothing edges, it does spatial averaging. In the literature, the effectiveness of this method for image denoising is shown. In this paper, an extension of this method is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Seyede Mahya Hazavei , Hamid Reza Shahdoosti

Polarimetric imaging can provide valuable information about biological samples in a wide range of applications. Detrimental scattering however currently limits the imaging depth of in-vivo imaging to approximately 1 transport mean free…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-28 Kai Ling C. Seow , Peter Török , Matthew R. Foreman

Spectro-polarimetric imaging provides multidimensional optical information acquisition capabilities, offering significant potential for diverse applications. Current spectro-polarimetric imaging systems typically suffer from large physical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Jingyue Ma , Zhenming Yu , Zhengyang Li , Liang Lin , Liming Cheng , Jiayu Di , Tongshuo Zhang , Ning Zhan , Kun Xu

In this paper we present a differential approach to photo-polarimetric shape estimation. We propose several alternative differential constraints based on polarisation and photometric shading information and show how to express them in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Silvia Tozza , William A. P. Smith , Dizhong Zhu , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Edwin R. Hancock

Interferometric phase linking (IPL) has become a prominent technique for processing images of areas containing distributed scaterrers in SAR interferometry. Traditionally, IPL consists in estimating consistent phase differences between all…

Applications · Statistics 2024-03-14 Phan Viet Hoa Vu , Arnaud Breloy , Frédéric Brigui , Yajing Yan , Guillaume Ginolhac

X-ray polarimetry has great scientific potential and new experiments, such as X-Calibur, PoGOLite, XIPE, and GEMS, will not only be orders of magnitude more sensitive than previous missions, but also provide the capability to measure…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-03 Fabian Kislat , Matthias Beilicke , Qingzhen Guo , Anna Zajczyk , Henric Krawczynski

The joint interpretation of very high resolution SAR and optical images in dense urban area are not trivial due to the distinct imaging geometry of the two types of images. Especially, the inevitable layover caused by the side-looking SAR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-24 Yuanyuan Wang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

In this paper, a new probability density function (pdf) is proposed to model the statistics of wavelet coefficients, and a simple Kalman's filter is derived from the new pdf using Bayesian estimation theory. Specifically, we decompose the…

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