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Removing speckle noise from SAR images is still an open issue. It is well know that the interpretation of SAR images is very challenging and despeckling algorithms are necessary to improve the ability of extracting information. An urban…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-17 Giampaolo Ferraioli , Vito Pascazio , Sergio Vitale

SAR despeckling is a problem of paramount importance in remote sensing, since it represents the first step of many scene analysis algorithms. Recently, deep learning techniques have outperformed classical model-based despeckling algorithms.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-16 Andrea Bordone Molini , Diego Valsesia , Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli

Multilook processing is a widely used speckle reduction approach in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging. Conventionally, it is achieved by incoherently summing of some independent low-resolution images formulated from overlapping…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Jian Fang , Zongben Xu , Bingchen Zhang , Wen Hong , Yirong Wu

Small area change detection from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a highly challenging task. In this paper, a robust unsupervised approach is proposed for small area change detection from multi-temporal SAR images using deep learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Xinzheng Zhang , Hang Su , Ce Zhang , Xiaowei Gu , Xiaoheng Tan , Peter M. Atkinson

Benefited from the rapid and sustainable development of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors, change detection from SAR images has received increasing attentions over the past few years. Existing unsupervised deep learning-based methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Junjie Wang , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong , Qian Du , Heng-Chao Li

This letter introduces a physics-informed self-supervised framework for sonar image despeckling that reformulates despeckling as residual consistency in the homomorphic log domain. By constraining the log-ratio residual to obey…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Swapna Pillai , Siddharth Singh Savner , Sujit Kumar Sahoo

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery enables all-weather, day-and-night Earth observation; however, it remains difficult to interpret due to speckle noise and other intrinsic imaging artifacts. Sentinel-1 (S1) constitutes one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Juan Francisco Amieva , Christian Ayala , Roberto Del Prete , Mikel Galar

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

Image structure-texture decomposition is a long-standing and fundamental problem in both image processing and computer vision fields. In this paper, we propose a generalized semi-sparse regularization framework for image structural analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Junqing Huang , Haihui Wang , Michael Ruzhansky

Change detection is one of the fundamental applications of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. However, speckle noise presented in SAR images has a much negative effect on change detection. In this research, a novel two-phase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Xinzheng Zhang , Guo Liu , Ce Zhang , Peter M Atkinson , Xiaoheng Tan , Xin Jian , Xichuan Zhou , Yongming Li

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

In this paper we investigate the use of discriminative model learning through Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for SAR image despeckling. The network uses a residual learning strategy, hence it does not recover the filtered image, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-04 G. Chierchia , D. Cozzolino , G. Poggi , L. Verdoliva

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

Satellite-based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images can be used as a source of remote sensed imagery regardless of cloud cover and day-night cycle. However, the speckle noise and varying image acquisition conditions pose a challenge for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Janne Alatalo , Tuomo Sipola , Mika Rantonen

The analysis of ocean surface is widely performed using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery as it yields information for wide areas under challenging weather conditions, during day or night, etc. Speckle noise constitutes however the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-15 Oktay Karakuş , Igor Rizaev , Alin Achim

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

Coherent imaging systems like synthetic aperture radar are susceptible to multiplicative noise that makes applications like automatic target recognition challenging. In this paper, NeighCNN, a deep learning-based speckle reduction algorithm…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-27 Praveen Ravirathinam , Darshan Agrawal , J. Jennifer Ranjani

This paper describes a novel projection algorithm, the Projection Onto Span Algorithm (POSA) for wavelet-based superresolution and removing speckle (in wavelet domain) of unknown variance from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Mario Mastriani

We consider the problem of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging and motion estimation of complex scenes. By complex we mean scenes with multiple targets, stationary and in motion. We use the usual setup with one moving antenna emitting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Liliana Borcea , Thomas Callaghan , George Papanicolaou

This paper presents a technique for reducing speckle in Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) imagery using Nonlocal Means and a statistical test based on stochastic divergences. The main objective is to select homogeneous pixels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-18 Leonardo Torres , Sidnei J. S. Sant'Anna , Corina C. Freitas , Alejandro C. Frery