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We propose a guidance strategy to optimize real-time synthetic aperture sampling for occlusion removal with drones by pre-scanned point-cloud data. Depth information can be used to compute visibility of points on the ground for individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Rakesh John Amala Arokia Nathan , Sigrid Strand , Dmitriy Shutin , Oliver Bimber

Deep learning approaches require enough training samples to perform well, but it is a challenge to collect enough real training data and label them manually. In this letter, we propose the use of realistic synthetic data with a wide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Weixing Liu , Jun Liu , Bin Luo

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images contain a huge amount of information, however, the number of practical use-cases is limited due to the presence of speckle noise in them. In recent years, deep learning based techniques have brought…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-24 Shrey Dabhi , Kartavya Soni , Utkarsh Patel , Priyanka Sharma , Manojkumar Parmar

The goal of synthetic aperture imaging is to estimate the reflectivity of a remote region of interest by processing data gathered with a moving sensor which emits periodically a signal and records the backscattered wave. We introduce and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-05 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier

Coded apertures, traditionally employed in x-ray astronomy for imaging celestial objects, are now being adapted for micro-scale applications, particularly in studying microscopic specimens with synchrotron light diffraction. In this paper,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-22 Doğa Gürsoy , Dina Sheyfer , Michael Wojcik , Wenjun Liu , Jonathan Tischler

We consider synthetic aperture radar imaging of a region containing point-like targets. Measurements are the set of frequency responses to scattering by the targets taken over a collection of individual spatial locations along the flight…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Arnold D. Kim , Chrysoula Tsogka

Classical and more recently deep computer vision methods are optimized for visible spectrum images, commonly encoded in grayscale or RGB colorspaces acquired from smartphones or cameras. A more uncommon source of images exploited in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Caio C. V. da Silva , Keiller Nogueira , Hugo N. Oliveira , Jefersson A. dos Santos

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Xinyu Bai , Feng Xu

We have developed a new on-axis digital holographic technique, heterodyne holography. The resolution of this technique is limited mainly by the amount of data recorded on two-dimensional photodetectors, i.e., the number of pixels and their…

Optics · Physics 2011-12-26 Frédérique Le Clerc , Michel Gross , Laurent Collot

This thesis is concerned with problems related to Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The thesis is structured as follows: The first chapter explains what SAR is, and the physical and mathematical background is illuminated. The following…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-10-26 Jens Klein

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are a valuable asset for a wide variety of tasks. In the last few years, many websites have been offering them for free in the form of easy to manage products, favoring their widespread diffusion and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Edoardo Daniele Cannas , Nicolò Bonettini , Sara Mandelli , Paolo Bestagini , Stefano Tubaro

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

Synthetic aperture imaging has enabled breakthrough observations from radar to astronomy. However, optical implementation remains challenging due to stringent wavefield synchronization requirements among multiple receivers. Here we present…

Digital two-dimensional (2D) spatial sampling devices (such as charge-coupled device) have been widely used in various imaging systems, especially in computational imaging systems. However, the undersampling of digital sampling devices is a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-02 Junzheng Peng , Manhong Yao , Zixin Cai , Xue Qiu , Zibang Zhang , Shiping Li , Jingang Zhong

This book chapter describes how spectral correlations in scattered light fields can be utilized for high-precision time-of-flight sensing. The chapter should serve as a gentle introduction and is intended for computational imaging…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-13 Florian Willomitzer

In this article, we evaluate unsupervised anomaly detection methods in multispectral images obtained with a wavelength-independent synthetic aperture sensing technique, called Airborne Optical Sectioning (AOS). With a focus on search and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Francis Seits , Indrajit Kurmi , Oliver Bimber

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a tomographic sensor that measures 2D slices of the 3D spatial Fourier transform of the scene. In many operational scenarios, the measured set of 2D slices does not fill the 3D space in the Fourier domain,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Nithin Sugavanam , Emre Ertin

We use convolutional neural networks to recover images optically down-sampled by $6.7\times$ using coherent aperture synthesis over a 16 camera array. Where conventional ptychography relies on scanning and oversampling, here we apply…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Chengyu Wang , Minghao Hu , Yuzuru Takashima , Timothy J. Schulz , David J. Brady

Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) measures a scene from multiple views in order to increase the resolution of reconstructed imagery. Image reconstruction methods for SAS coherently combine measurements to focus acoustic energy onto the scene.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-19 Albert W. Reed , Juhyeon Kim , Thomas Blanford , Adithya Pediredla , Daniel C. Brown , Suren Jayasuriya

Recent advances in deep learning-based object detection techniques have revolutionized their applicability in several fields. However, since these methods rely on unwieldy and large amounts of data, a common practice is to download models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 João Borrego , Atabak Dehban , Rui Figueiredo , Plinio Moreno , Alexandre Bernardino , José Santos-Victor