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Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image segmentation is currently of great importance in image processing for remote sensing applications. However, it is a challenging task due to two main reasons. Firstly, the label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Haixia Bi , Lin Xu , Xiangyong Cao , Yong Xue , Zongben Xu

This paper investigates universal polar coding schemes. In particular, a notion of ordering (called convolutional path) is introduced between probability distributions to determine when a polar compression (or communication) scheme designed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-03 Emmanuel Abbe

We propose a generic Scattering Power Factorization Framework (SPFF) for Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) data to directly obtain $N$ scattering power components along with a residue power component for each pixel. Each…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Debanshu Ratha , Eric Pottier , Avik Bhattacharya , Alejandro C. Frery

The inherently complex-valued nature of Polarimetric SAR data necessitates using specialized algorithms capable of directly processing complex-valued representations. However, this aspect remains underexplored in the deep learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Quentin Gabot , Joana Frontera-Pons , Jérémy Fix , Chengfang Ren , Jean-Philippe Ovarlez

We propose a system for visual scene analysis and recognition based on encoding the sparse, latent feature-representation of an image into a high-dimensional vector that is subsequently factorized to parse scene content. The sparse feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Christopher J. Kymn , Sonia Mazelet , Annabel Ng , Denis Kleyko , Bruno A. Olshausen

Existing polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image classification methods cannot achieve satisfactory performance on complex scenes characterized by several types of land cover with significant levels of noise or similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Wenshuai Chen , Shuiping Gou , Xinlin Wang , Licheng Jiao , Changzhe Jiao , Alina Zare

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

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

Images obtained from coherent illumination processes are contaminated with speckle. A prominent example of such imagery systems is the polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR). For such remote sensing tool the speckle interference…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Abraão D. C. Nascimento , Alejandro C. Frery , Renato J. Cintra

For polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) image classification, it is a challenge to classify the aggregated terrain types, such as the urban area, into semantic homogenous regions due to sharp bright-dark variations in intensity. The aggregated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-02 Fang Liu , Junfei Shi , Licheng Jiao , Hongying Liu , Shuyuan Yang , Jie Wu , Hongxia Hao , Jialing Yuan

Pansharpening is a fundamental issue in remote sensing field. This paper proposes a side information partially guided convolutional sparse coding (SCSC) model for pansharpening. The key idea is to split the low resolution multispectral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Shuang Xu , Jiangshe Zhang , Kai Sun , Zixiang Zhao , Lu Huang , Junmin Liu , Chunxia Zhang

This paper introduces a fast algorithm for simultaneous inversion and determinant computation of small sized matrices in the context of fully Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) image processing and analysis. The proposed fast…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-07-24 D. F. G. Coelho , R. J. Cintra , A. C. Frery , V. S. Dimitrov

The annotation of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images is a labor-intensive and time-consuming process. Therefore, classifying PolSAR images with limited labels is a challenging task in remote sensing domain. In recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Yuchen Wang , Ziyi Guo , Haixia Bi , Danfeng Hong , Chen Xu

Diffusion models have demonstrated exceptional performance across various domains due to their ability to model and generate complicated data distributions. However, when applied to PolSAR data, traditional real-valued diffusion models face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Junfei Shi , Yu Cheng , Haiyan Jin , Junhuai Li , Zhaolin Xiao , Maoguo Gong , Weisi Lin

In this paper, we investigated the semantic segmentation of Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) using Complex-Valued Neural Network (CVNN). Although the coherency matrix is more widely used as the input of CVNN, the Pauli vector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 José Agustin Barrachina , Chengfang Ren , Christèle Morisseau , Gilles Vieillard , Jean-Philippe Ovarlez

Although complex-valued (CV) neural networks have shown better classification results compared to their real-valued (RV) counterparts for polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) classification, the extension of pixel-level RV…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-01 Yice Cao , Yan Wu , Peng Zhang , Wenkai Liang , Ming Li

We describe a novel approach to interpret a polar code as a low-density parity-check (LDPC)-like code with an underlying sparse decoding graph. This sparse graph is based on the encoding factor graph of polar codes and is suitable for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Sebastian Cammerer , Moustafa Ebada , Ahmed Elkelesh , Stephan ten Brink

Vision foundation models in remote sensing have been extensively studied due to their superior generalization on various downstream tasks. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) offers all-day, all-weather imaging capabilities, providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Mengyu Wang , Hanbo Bi , Yingchao Feng , Linlin Xin , Shuo Gong , Tianqi Wang , Zhiyuan Yan , Peijin Wang , Wenhui Diao , Xian Sun

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 sparse coding, we attempt to extract features of input vectors, assuming that the data is inherently structured as a sparse superposition of basic building blocks. Similarly, neural networks perform a given task by learning features of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Deborah Pereg , Israel Cohen , Anthony A. Vassiliou