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Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) image reconstruction, or beamforming as it is often referred to within the SAS community, comprises a class of computationally intensive algorithms for creating coherent high-resolution imagery from successive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-27 Isaac D. Gerg , Daniel C. Brown , Stephen G. Wagner , Daniel Cook , Brian N. O'Donnell , Thomas Benson , Thomas C. Montgomery

Ultrasonic imaging is being used to obtain information about the acoustic properties of a medium by emitting waves into it and recording their interaction using ultrasonic transducer arrays. The Delay-And-Sum (DAS) algorithm forms images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Georgios Pilikos , Lars Horchens , Tristan van Leeuwen , Felix Lucka

Image matting is a long-standing problem in computer graphics and vision, mostly identified as the accurate estimation of the foreground in input images. We argue that the foreground objects can be represented by different-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Yu Qiao , Yuhao Liu , Qiang Zhu , Xin Yang , Yuxin Wang , Qiang Zhang , Xiaopeng Wei

Fusing satellite imagery acquired with different sensors has been a long-standing challenge of Earth observation, particularly across different modalities such as optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Here, we explore the joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Manu Tom , Yuchang Jiang , Emmanuel Baltsavias , Konrad Schindler

Sonar imaging is the primary modality for underwater target detection, yet small targets remain difficult to detect due to insufficient pixel coverage, low acoustic contrast, and scale ambiguity across imaging ranges. CNN-based detectors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hui Lin , Jiayi Li , Jing Wang , Shenghui Rong

With FaSS-MVS, we present an approach for fast multi-view stereo with surface-aware Semi-Global Matching that allows for rapid depth and normal map estimation from monocular aerial video data captured by UAVs. The data estimated by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Boitumelo Ruf , Martin Weinmann , Stefan Hinz

Circular Synthetic aperture sonars (CSAS) capture multiple observations of a scene to reconstruct high-resolution images. We can characterize resolution by modeling CSAS imaging as the convolution between a scene's underlying point…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Albert Reed , Thomas Blanford , Daniel C. Brown , Suren Jayasuriya

An adequate fusion of the most significant salient information from multiple input channels is essential for many aerial imaging tasks. While multispectral recordings reveal features in various spectral ranges, synthetic aperture sensing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Mohamed Youssef , Oliver Bimber

Snapshot mosaic multispectral imagery acquires an undersampled data cube by acquiring a single spectral measurement per spatial pixel. Sensors which acquire $p$ frequencies, therefore, suffer from severe $1/p$ undersampling of the full data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Giancarlo A. Antonucci , Simon Vary , David Humphreys , Robert A. Lamb , Jonathan Piper , Jared Tanner

Imaging methods based on array signal processing often require a fixed propagation speed of the medium, or speed of sound (SoS) for methods based on acoustic signals. The resolution of the images formed using these methods is strongly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Kyurae Kim , Simon Maskell , Jason F. Ralph

Through-wall synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging is of significant interest for security purposes, in particular when using multi-static SAR systems consisting of multiple distributed radar transmitters and receivers to improve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Francis Watson , Daniel Andre , William Robert Breckon Lionheart

Hyperspectral imaging can help better understand the characteristics of different materials, compared with traditional image systems. However, only high-resolution multispectral (HrMS) and low-resolution hyperspectral (LrHS) images can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Qi Xie , Minghao Zhou , Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng , Wangmeng Zuo , Zongben Xu

Noise pollution investigation takes advantage of two common methods of diagnosis: measurement using a Sound Level Meter and acoustical imaging. The former enables a detailed analysis of the surrounding noise spectrum whereas the latter is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-03-28 Charles Vanwynsberghe , Régis Marchiano , François Ollivier , Pascal Challande , Hélène Moingeon , Jacques Marchal

Simultaneous multislice (SMS) imaging is a one of the acceleration technique of magnetic resonance imaging. SMS requires accurate sensitivity distributions in the slice plane for each receiving coil. This requirement is difficult to satisfy…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 Satoshi Ito , Yuki Sato , Naoya Endo , Shohei Ouchi

Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) image resolution is constrained by waveform bandwidth and array geometry. Specifically, the waveform bandwidth determines a point spread function (PSF) that blurs the locations of point scatterers in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Albert Reed , Thomas Blanford , Daniel C. Brown , Suren Jayasuriya

In this paper, we propose a method using a three dimensional convolutional neural network (3-D-CNN) to fuse together multispectral (MS) and hyperspectral (HS) images to obtain a high resolution hyperspectral image. Dimensionality reduction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Frosti Palsson , Johannes R. Sveinsson , Magnus O. Ulfarsson

Side-scan sonar (SSS) is a lightweight acoustic sensor that is commonly deployed on autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to provide high-resolution seafloor images. However, leveraging side-scan images for simultaneous localization and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Jun Zhang , Yiping Xie , Li Ling , John Folkesson

Structured illumination can reject out-of-focus signal from a sample, enabling high-speed and high-contrast imaging over large areas with widefield detection optics. Currently, this optical-sectioning technique is limited by image…

We introduce Seamless Satellite-image Synthesis (SSS), a novel neural architecture to create scale-and-space continuous satellite textures from cartographic data. While 2D map data is cheap and easily synthesized, accurate satellite imagery…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Jialin Zhu , Tom Kelly

Spectral imaging enables spatially-resolved identification of materials in remote sensing, biomedicine, and astronomy. However, acquisition times require balancing spectral and spatial resolution with signal-to-noise. Hyperspectral imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Nguyen Tran , Rupali Mankar , David Mayerich , Zhu Han