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This paper explores the use of multi-conditional adversarial networks for SAR-to-EO image translation. Previous methods condition adversarial networks only on the input SAR. We show that incorporating multiple complementary modalities such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Armando Cabrera , Miriam Cha , Prafull Sharma , Michael Newey

Thermal Infrared (TIR) cameras are gaining popularity in many computer vision applications due to their ability to operate under low-light conditions. Images produced by TIR cameras are usually difficult for humans to perceive visually,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Adam Nyberg , Abdelrahman Eldesokey , David Bergström , David Gustafsson

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is prevalent in the remote sensing field but is difficult to interpret in human visual perception. Recently, SAR-to-optical (S2O) image conversion methods have provided a prospective solution for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Mingjin Zhang , Jiamin Xu , Chengyu He , Wenteng Shang , Yunsong Li , Xinbo Gao

Synthetic Aperture Radar has been extensively used in numerous fields and can gather a wealth of information about the area of interest. This large scene data intensive technology puts a high value on automatic target recognition which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Guibin Zhao , Pengfei Li , Zhibo Zhang , Fusen Guo , Xueting Huang , Wei Xu , Jinyin Wang , Jianlong Chen

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging is capable of observing objects in nearly all weather and illumination conditions and has become an indispensable means of information acquisition for analysis and recognition of objects and scenes.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Jie Zhou , Yongxiang Liu , Li Liu , Weijie Li , Bowen Peng , Yafei Song , Gangyao Kuang , Xiang Li

A self-driving car must be able to reliably handle adverse weather conditions (e.g., snowy) to operate safely. In this paper, we investigate the idea of turning sensor inputs (i.e., images) captured in an adverse condition into a benign one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Youya Xia , Josephine Monica , Wei-Lun Chao , Bharath Hariharan , Kilian Q Weinberger , Mark Campbell

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are usually degraded by a multiplicative noise known as speckle which makes processing and interpretation of SAR images difficult. In this paper, we introduce a transformer-based network for SAR image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Malsha V. Perera , Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Vishal M. Patel

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

There is rising interest in differentiable rendering, which allows explicitly modeling geometric priors and constraints in optimization pipelines using first-order methods such as backpropagation. Incorporating such domain knowledge can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Michael Wilmanski , Jonathan Tamir

This technical report summarizes the analysis and approach on the image-to-image translation task in the Multimodal Learning for Earth and Environment Challenge (MultiEarth 2022). In terms of strategy optimization, cloud classification is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Fujian Cheng , Yashu Kang , Chunlei Chen , Kezhao Jiang

Earth observation satellites like Sentinel-1 (S1) and Sentinel-2 (S2) provide complementary remote sensing (RS) data, but S2 images are often unavailable due to cloud cover or data gaps. To address this, we propose a diffusion model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Kaan Aydin , Joelle Hanna , Damian Borth

Image-to-image translation with Deep Learning neural networks, particularly with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), is one of the most powerful methods for simulating astronomical images. However, current work is limited to utilizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Qiufan Lin , Dominique Fouchez , Jérôme Pasquet

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Janne Alatalo , Tuomo Sipola , Mika Rantonen

Image-to-image (I2I) translation is an established way of translating data from one domain to another but the usability of the translated images in the target domain when working with such dissimilar domains as the SAR/optical satellite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Alejandro D. Mousist

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

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) 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

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

Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for cross-domain image-to-image translation have made much progress recently. Depending on the task complexity, thousands to millions of labeled image pairs are needed to train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Zili Yi , Hao Zhang , Ping Tan , Minglun Gong

Synthetic Aperture RADAR is a radar imaging technique in which the relative motion of the sensor is used to synthesize a very long antenna and obtain high spatial resolution. The increasing interest of the scientific community to simplify…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-05 Cataldo Guaragnella , Tiziana D'Orazio