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The Half-Space Matching (HSM) method has recently been developed as a new method for the solution of 2D scattering problems with complex backgrounds, providing an alternative to Perfectly Matched Layers (PML) or other artificial boundary…

A soundscape is defined by the acoustic environment a person perceives at a location. In this work, we propose a framework for mapping soundscapes across the Earth. Since soundscapes involve sound distributions that span varying spatial…

Autonomous navigation in unstructured off-road environments is greatly improved by semantic scene understanding. Conventional image processing algorithms are difficult to implement and lack robustness due to a lack of structure and high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Anthony Medellin , Anant Bhamri , Reza Langari , Swaminathan Gopalswamy

The present paper develops a general methodology for the morphological segmentation of hyperspectral images, i.e., with an important number of channels. This approach, based on watershed, is composed of a spectral classification to obtain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-05 Guillaume Noyel , Jesus Angulo , Dominique Jeulin

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images encompass valuable information that can facilitate extensive land cover interpretation and generate diverse output products. Extracting meaningful features from PolSAR data poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Mohammed Q. Alkhatib , M. Sami Zitouni , Mina Al-Saad , Nour Aburaed , Hussain Al-Ahmad

Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) images are an important source of information. Speckle noise gives SAR images a granular appearance that makes interpretation and analysis hard tasks. A major issue is the assessment of…

Applications · Statistics 2019-05-01 M. G. Palacio , S. B. Ferrero , A. C. Frery

Polarimetric imaging captures surface polarization characteristics, such as the Degree of Linear Polarization (DoLP) and the Angle of Polarization (AoP). In mainstream Division of-Focal-Plane (DoFP) color polarization imaging, recovering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chenggong Li , Yidong Luo , Junchao Zhang , Boxin Shi , Degui Yang

This work presents a comprehensive examination of the use of information theory for understanding Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) images by means of contrast measures that can be used as test statistics. Due to the phenomenon…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-02-11 A. C. Frery , A. D. C. Nascimento , R. J. Cintra

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

Hyperspectral images often have hundreds of spectral bands of different wavelengths captured by aircraft or satellites that record land coverage. Identifying detailed classes of pixels becomes feasible due to the enhancement in spectral and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Raymond H. Chan , Ruoning Li

Hyperspectral super-resolution (HSR) is a problem that aims to estimate an image of high spectral and spatial resolutions from a pair of co-registered multispectral (MS) and hyperspectral (HS) images, which have coarser spectral and spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Ruiyuan Wu , Wing-Kin Ma , Xiao Fu , Qiang Li

State-of-the-art methods for semantic segmentation of images involve computationally intensive neural network architectures. Most of these methods are not adaptable to high-resolution image segmentation due to memory and other computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Siddharth Saravanan , Aditya Challa , Sravan Danda

Assigning meaning to parts of image data is the goal of semantic image segmentation. Machine learning methods, specifically supervised learning is commonly used in a variety of tasks formulated as semantic segmentation. One of the major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Lu Yin , Vlado Menkovski , Shiwei Liu , Mykola Pechenizkiy

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

There are limited studies on the semantic segmentation of high-resolution Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) images due to the scarcity of training data and the inference of speckle noises. The Gaofen contest has provided open…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Lei Ding , Kai Zheng , Dong Lin , Yuxing Chen , Bing Liu , Jiansheng Li , Lorenzo Bruzzone

Polarimetric imaging aims to recover polarimetric parameters, including Total Intensity (TI), Degree of Polarization (DoP), and Angle of Polarization (AoP), from captured polarized measurements. In real-world scenarios, these measurements…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Chu Zhou , Yufei Han , Junda Liao , Linrui Dai , Wangze Xu , Art Subpa-Asa , Heng Guo , Boxin Shi , Imari Sato

Image harmonization is a crucial technique in image composition that aims to seamlessly match the background by adjusting the foreground of composite images. Current methods adopt either global-level or pixel-level feature matching.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Haoxing Chen , Yaohui Li , Zhangxuan Gu , Zhuoer Xu , Jun Lan , Huaxiong Li

In the semantic segmentation of remote sensing images, acquiring complete ground objects is critical for achieving precise analysis. However, this task is severely hindered by two major challenges: high intra-class variance and high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Junyi Wang , Jinjiang Li , Guodong Fan , Yakun Ju , Xiang Fang , Alex C. Kot

A new classifier for Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) images is proposed and assessed in this paper. Its input consists of segments, and each one is assigned the class which minimizes a stochastic distance. Assuming the complex Wishart model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Wagner Barreto da Silva , Corina da Costa Freitas , Sidnei João Siqueira Sant'Anna , Alejandro C. Frery

Humans are able to recognize structured relations in observation, allowing us to decompose complex scenes into simpler parts and abstract the visual world in multiple levels. However, such hierarchical reasoning ability of human perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Liulei Li , Tianfei Zhou , Wenguan Wang , Jianwu Li , Yi Yang