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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…

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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) offers all-weather, high-resolution imaging capabilities, but its complex imaging mechanism often poses challenges for interpretation. In response to these limitations, this paper introduces an innovative…

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Deep learning is able to functionally simulate the human brain and thus, it has attracted considerable interest. Optics-assisted deep learning is a promising approach to improve the forward-propagation speed and reduce the power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Zhixing Lin , Shuqian Sun , Jose Azana , Wei Li , Ninghua Zhu , Ming Li

In synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection, it is quite challenging to exploit the changing information from the noisy difference image subject to the speckle. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale spatial pooling (MSSP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Jia-Wei Chen , Rongfang Wang , Fan Ding , Bo Liu , Licheng Jiao , Jie Zhang

In this paper, we investigate how to learn a suitable representation of satellite image time series in an unsupervised manner by leveraging large amounts of unlabeled data. Additionally , we aim to disentangle the representation of time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Eduardo Sanchez , Mathieu Serrurier , Mathias Ortner

Contrary to optical images, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are in different electromagnetic spectrum where the human visual system is not accustomed to. Thus, with more and more SAR applications, the demand for enhanced high-quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-23 Dongyang Ao , Corneliu Octavian Dumitru , Gottfried Schwarz , Mihai Datcu

3D reconstruction of a scene from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images mainly relies on interferometric measurements, which involve strict constraints on the acquisition process. These last years, progress in deep learning has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Emile Barbier--Renard , Florence Tupin , Nicolas Trouvé , Loïc Denis

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical image registration is essential for remote sensing data fusion, with applications in military reconnaissance, environmental monitoring, and disaster management. However, challenges arise from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Wenfei Zhang , Ruipeng Zhao , Yongxiang Yao , Yi Wan , Peihao Wu , Jiayuan Li , Yansheng Li , Yongjun Zhang

In contrast to the well-investigated field of SAR-to-Optical translation, this study explores the lesser-investigated domain of Optical-to-SAR translation, a challenging field due to the ill-posed nature of this translation. The complexity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Moien Rangzan , Sara Attarchi , Richard Gloaguen , Seyed Kazem Alavipanah

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection is a critical yet challenging task in the field of remote sensing image analysis. The task is non-trivial due to the following challenges: Firstly, intrinsic speckle noise of SAR images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Yunhao Gao , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong , Qian Du , Heng-Chao Li

Multispectral Sentinel-2 images are a valuable source of Earth observation data, however spatial resolution of their spectral bands limited to 10 m, 20 m, and 60 m ground sampling distance remains insufficient in many cases. This problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Tomasz Tarasiewicz , Jakub Nalepa , Reuben A. Farrugia , Gianluca Valentino , Mang Chen , Johann A. Briffa , Michal Kawulok

The advancement of multi-channel synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system is considered as an upgraded technology for surveillance activities. SAR sensors onboard provide data for coastal ocean surveillance and a view of the oceanic surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Surya Prakash Tiwari , Sudhir Kumar Chaturvedi , Subhrangshu Adhikary , Saikat Banerjee , Sourav Basu

Data collection has always been a major issue in the modeling and training of large deep learning networks, as no dataset can account for every slight deviation we might see in live usage. Collecting samples can be especially costly for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Conor Flynn , Christopher Ebersole , Edmund Zelnio

Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image registration is crucial for multi-modal image fusion and applications. However, several challenges limit the performance of existing deep learning-based methods in cross-modal image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Wei Wang , Dou Quan , Ning Huyan , Chonghua Lv , Shuang Wang , Yunan Li , Licheng Jiao

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are widely used in remote sensing. Interpreting SAR images can be challenging due to their intrinsic speckle noise and grayscale nature. To address this issue, SAR colorization has emerged as a research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Kangqing Shen , Gemine Vivone , Xiaoyuan Yang , Simone Lolli , Michael Schmitt

This work aims to train Deep Learning models to perform Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. To circumvent the lack of real labelled measurements, we resort to synthetic data produced by SAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Benjamin Camus , Julien Houssay , Corentin Le Barbu , Eric Monteux , Cédric Saleun , Christian Cochin

Deep learning in remote sensing has become an international hype, but it is mostly limited to the evaluation of optical data. Although deep learning has been introduced in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data processing, despite successful…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Xiao Xiang Zhu , Sina Montazeri , Mohsin Ali , Yuansheng Hua , Yuanyuan Wang , Lichao Mou , Yilei Shi , Feng Xu , Richard Bamler

Images generated by high-resolution SAR have vast areas of application as they can work better in adverse light and weather conditions. One such area of application is in the military systems. This study is an attempt to explore the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-29 Aakash Singh , Vivek Kumar Singh

We synthesize both optical RGB and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing images from land cover maps and auxiliary raster data using generative adversarial networks (GANs). In remote sensing, many types of data, such as digital…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Gerald Baier , Antonin Deschemps , Michael Schmitt , Naoto Yokoya

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are affected by a spatially-correlated and signal-dependent noise called speckle, which is very severe and may hinder image exploitation. Despeckling is an important task that aims at removing such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli , Giovanni Poggi , Giuseppe Scarpa , Diego Valsesia , Luisa Verdoliva