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Single-photon Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) systems are often equipped with an array of detectors for improved spatial resolution and sensing speed. However, given a fixed amount of flux produced by the laser transmitter across the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-03 Stanley H. Chan , Hashan K. Weerasooriya , Weijian Zhang , Pamela Abshire , Istvan Gyongy , Robert K. Henderson

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery plays a critical role in all-weather, day-and-night remote sensing applications. However, existing SAR-oriented deep learning is constrained by data scarcity, while the physically grounded speckle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Danxu Liu , Di Wang , Hebaixu Wang , Haoyang Chen , Wentao Jiang , Yilin Cheng , Haonan Guo , Wei Cui , Jing Zhang

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

Remote sensing visual question answering (RSVQA) has been involved in several research in recent years, leading to an increase in new methods. RSVQA automatically extracts information from satellite images, so far only optical, and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Lucrezia Tosato , Sylvain Lobry , Flora Weissgerber , Laurent Wendling

This article proposes novel sparsity-aware space-time adaptive processing (SA-STAP) algorithms with $l_1$-norm regularization for airborne phased-array radar applications. The proposed SA-STAP algorithms suppose that a number of samples of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Z. Yang , R. C. de Lamare

Removing speckle noise from medical ultrasound images while preserving image features without introducing artifact and distortion is a major challenge in ultrasound image restoration. In this paper, we propose a multiframe-based adaptive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-30 Jayanta Dey , Md. Kamrul Hasan

We study the noise of the intensity variance and of the intensity correlation and structure functions measured in light scattering from a random medium in the case when these quantities are obtained by averaging over a finite number N of…

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an efficient and widely used remote sensing tool. However, data extracted from SAR images are contaminated with speckle, which precludes the application of techniques based on the assumption of additive and…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-15 A. D. C. Nascimento , J. M. Vasconcelos , R. J. Cintra , A. C. Frery

The interference of fluorescence signals and noise remains a significant challenge in Raman spectrum analysis, often obscuring subtle spectral features that are critical for accurate analysis. Inspired by variational methods similar to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Nelson H. T. Lemes , José Claudinei Ferreira , Higor V. M. Ferreira

Hyperspectral image (HSI) denoising aims to restore clean HSI from the noise-contaminated one. Noise contamination can often be caused during data acquisition and conversion. In this paper, we propose a novel spatial-spectral total…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Haijin Zeng , Xiaozhen Xie , Jifeng Ning

This paper proposes a precise signal recovery method with multilayered non-convex regularization, enhancing sparsity/low-rankness for high-dimensional signals including images and videos. In optimization-based signal recovery, multilayered…

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Compressed Sensing suggests that the required number of samples for reconstructing a signal can be greatly reduced if it is sparse in a known discrete basis, yet many real-world signals are sparse in a continuous dictionary. One example is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-24 Yuanxin Li , Yuejie Chi

Sparsity-regularized synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging framework has shown its remarkable performance to generate a feature enhanced high resolution image, in which a sparsity-inducing regularizer is involved by exploiting the sparsity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Biao Hou , Zaidao Wen , Licheng Jiao , Qian Wu

Speckle artifacts degrade image quality in virtually all modalities that utilize coherent energy, including optical coherence tomography, reflectance confocal microscopy, ultrasound, and widefield imaging with laser illumination. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Taylor L. Bobrow , Faisal Mahmood , Miguel Inserni , Nicholas J. Durr

In ultrasound imaging the appearance of homogeneous regions of tissue is subject to speckle, which for certain applications can make the detection of tissue irregularities difficult. To cope with this, it is common practice to apply speckle…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Rüdiger Göbl , Christoph Hennersperger , Nassir Navab

We analyze synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging of complex ground scenes that contain both stationary and moving targets. In the usual SAR acquisition scheme, we consider ways to preprocess the data so as to separate the contributions of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-07 Matan Leibovich , George Papanicolaou , Chrysoula Tsogka

Context: The technique of disentangling has been applied to numerous high-precision studies of spectroscopic binaries and multiple stars. Although, its possibilities have not yet been fully understood and exploited. Aims: Theoretical…

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Crucial information barely visible to the human eye is often embedded in a series of low-resolution images taken of the same scene. Super-resolution enables the extraction of this information by reconstructing a single image, at a high…

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The problem of deblurring an image when the blur kernel is unknown remains challenging after decades of work. Recently there has been rapid progress on correcting irregular blur patterns caused by camera shake, but there is still much room…

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