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We describe a novel method for removing speckle (in wavelet domain) of unknown variance from SAR images. The me-thod is based on the following procedure: We apply 1) Bidimentional Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT-2D) to the speckled image,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Mario Mastriani

In the problem of spotlight mode airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image formation, it is well-known that data collected over a wide azimuthal angle violate the isotropic scattering property typically assumed. Many techniques have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-12 Victor Churchill , Anne Gelb

In synthetic aperture radar (SAR), images are formed by focusing the response of stationary objects to a single spatial location. On the other hand, moving targets cause phase errors in the standard formation of SAR images that cause…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-20 Gregory E. Newstadt , Edmund G. Zelnio , Alfred O. Hero

Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can provide accurate images of the ocean surface roughness day-or-night in nearly all weather conditions, being an unique asset for many geophysical applications. Considering the huge amount of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Nicolae-Cătălin Ristea , Andrei Anghel , Mihai Datcu , Bertrand Chapron

This article is written to serve as an introduction and survey of imaging with synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The reader will benefit from having some familiarity with harmonic analysis, electromagnetic radiation, and inverse problems.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Toby Sanders , Christian Dwyer , Rodrigo B. Platte

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) utilizes the movement of the radar antenna over a specific area of interest to achieve higher spatial resolution imaging. In this paper, we aim to investigate the realization of SAR imaging for a stationary…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Yifan Sun , Rang Liu , Zhiping Lu , Honghao Luo , Ming Li , Qian Liu

We address the denoising of images contaminated with multiplicative noise, e.g. speckle noise. Classical ways to solve such problems are filtering, statistical (Bayesian) methods, variational methods, and methods that convert the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-12-10 Sylvain Durand , Jalal Fadili , Mila Nikolova

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has a pivotal role as a remote imaging method. Obtained by means of coherent illumination, SAR images are contaminated with speckle noise. The statistical modeling of such contamination is well described…

Computation · Statistics 2012-07-11 Renato J. Cintra , Abraão D. C. Nascimento , Alejandro C. Frery

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are widely used in target recognition tasks nowadays. In this letter, we propose an automatic approach for radar shadow detection and extraction from SAR images utilizing geometric projections along…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-16 V. B. S. Prasath , O. Haddad

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery to monitor oil spills are some methods that have been proposed for the West African sub-region. With the increase in the number of oil exploration companies in Ghana (and her neighbors) and the rise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Griffith S. Klogo , Akpeko Gasonoo , Isaac K. E. Ampomah

We consider a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system that uses ultra-narrowband continuous waveforms (CW) as an illumination source. Such a system has many practical advantages, such as the use of relatively simple, low-cost and low-power…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-02-22 Ling Wang , Birsen Yazici

Synthesizing realistic and spatially precise anomalies is essential for enhancing the robustness of industrial anomaly detection systems. While recent diffusion-based methods have demonstrated strong capabilities in modeling complex defect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yanshu Wang , Xichen Xu , Xiaoning Lei , Guoyang Xie

Randomized Smoothing (RS) is a prominent technique for certifying the robustness of neural networks against adversarial perturbations. With RS, achieving high accuracy at small radii requires a small noise variance, while achieving high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chenhao Sun , Yuhao Mao , Martin Vechev

There is rising interest in differentiable rendering, which allows explicitly modeling geometric priors and constraints in optimization pipelines using first-order methods such as backpropagation. Incorporating such domain knowledge can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Michael Wilmanski , Jonathan Tamir

Spatially-varying intensity noise is a common source of distortion in medical images. Bias field noise is one example of such a distortion that is often present in the magnetic resonance (MR) images or other modalities such as retina…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Reza Abbasi-Asl , Aboozar Ghaffari , Emad Fatemizadeh

Despeckling is a key and indispensable step in SAR image preprocessing, existing deep learning-based methods achieve SAR despeckling by learning some mappings between speckled (different looks) and clean images. However, there exist no…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-14 Ye Yuan , Jian Guan , Jianguo Sun

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

Incoherent processing for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a promising approach that enables low implementation costs, simplified hardware designs and operations in high frequency spectrum compared to the conventional imaging methods using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Samia Kazemi , Bariscan Yonel , Birsen Yazici

Speckle reduction is a prerequisite for many image processing tasks in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, as well as all coherent images. In recent years, predominant state-of-the-art approaches for despeckling are usually based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Wensen Feng , Yunjin Chen

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging systems operate by emitting radar signals from a moving object, such as a satellite, towards the target of interest. Reflected radar echoes are received and later used by image formation algorithms to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Andrew Rittenbach , John Paul Walters