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This paper introduces Bayesian supervised and unsupervised segmentation algorithms aimed at oceanic segmentation of SAR images. The data term, \emph{i.e}., the density of the observed backscattered signal given the region, is modeled by a…

Applications · Statistics 2010-07-29 Sónia Pelizzari , José M. Bioucas-Dias

The effective combination of the complementary information provided by the huge amount of unlabeled multi-sensor data (e.g., Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical images) is a critical topic in remote sensing. Recently, contrastive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Yuxing Chen , Lorenzo Bruzzone

Despite the popularity and empirical success of patch-based nearest-neighbor and weighted majority voting approaches to medical image segmentation, there has been no theoretical development on when, why, and how well these nonparametric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-07 George Chen , Devavrat Shah , Polina Golland

Incoherent processing for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a promising approach that enables low implementation costs, simplified hardware designs and operations in high frequency spectrum compared to the conventional imaging methods using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Samia Kazemi , Bariscan Yonel , Birsen Yazici

Semantic segmentation of SAR images has garnered significant attention in remote sensing due to the immunity of SAR sensors to cloudy weather and light conditions. Nevertheless, SAR imagery lacks detailed information and is plagued by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Wang Liu , Zhiyu Wang , Xin Guo , Puhong Duan , Xudong Kang , Shutao Li

To denoise a reference patch, the Non-Local-Means denoising filter processes a set of neighbor patches. Few Nearest Neighbors (NN) are used to limit the computational burden of the algorithm. Here here we show analytically that the NN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Iuri Frosio , Jan Kautz

Light spectra are a very important source of information for diverse classification problems, e.g., for discrimination of materials. To lower the cost for acquiring this information, multispectral cameras are used. Several techniques exist…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-19 Frank Sippel , Jürgen Seiler , Nils Genser , André Kaup

Superpixel decomposition methods are widely used in computer vision and image processing applications. By grouping homogeneous pixels, the accuracy can be increased and the decrease of the number of elements to process can drastically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Rémi Giraud , Vinh-Thong Ta , Nicolas Papadakis

Optical remote sensing and Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) remote sensing are crucial for earth observation, offering complementary capabilities. While optical sensors provide high-quality images, they are limited by weather and lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Hannuo Zhang , Huihui Li , Jiarui Lin , Yujie Zhang , Jianghua Fan , Hang Liu

Although neural networks have proven very successful in a number of medical image analysis applications, their use remains difficult when targeting subtle tasks such as the identification of barely visible brain lesions, especially given…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-26 Verónica Muñoz-Ramírez , Nicolas Pinon , Florence Forbes , Carole Lartizen , Michel Dojat

We propose an adaptive approach for non local means (NLM) image filtering termed as non local adaptive clipped means (NLACM), which reduces the effect of outliers and improves the denoising quality as compared to traditional NLM. Common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-10 Raka Kundu , Amlan Chakrabarti , Prasanna Lenka

A new technique is presented for producing images from interferometric data. The method, ``smear fitting'', makes the constraints necessary for interferometric imaging double as a model, with uncertainties, of the sky brightness…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Robert I. Reid

An algorithm based on compressive sensing (CS) is proposed for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging of moving targets. The received SAR echo is decomposed into the sum of basis sub-signals, which are generated by discretizing the target…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-07 Jun Wang , Gang Li , Hao Zhang , Xiqin Wang

Nowadays, many applications rely on images of high quality to ensure good performance in conducting their tasks. However, noise goes against this objective as it is an unavoidable issue in most applications. Therefore, it is essential to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Ahmed Ben Said , Rachid Hadjidj , Kamel Eddine Melkemi , Sebti Foufou

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

We consider a pipeline for image classification or search based on coding approaches like Bag of Words or Fisher vectors. In this context, the most common approach is to extract the image patches regularly in a dense manner on several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-20 Ahmet Iscen , Giorgos Tolias , Philippe-Henri Gosselin , Hervé Jégou

Reducing speckle fluctuations in multi-channel SAR images is essential in many applications of SAR imaging such as polarimetric classification or interferometric height estimation. While single-channel despeckling has widely benefited from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Loïc Denis , Emanuele Dalsasso , Florence Tupin

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

Detection and localization of image manipulations like splices are gaining in importance with the easy accessibility of image editing softwares. While detection generates a verdict for an image it provides no insight into the manipulation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Aurobrata Ghosh , Zheng Zhong , Terrance E Boult , Maneesh Singh

Driven by the complementary nature of optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, SAR-optical image matching has garnered significant interest. Most existing SAR-optical image matching methods aim to capture effective matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jingze Gai , Changchun Li