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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…

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Recent progress in synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) technology and processing has led to significant advances in underwater imaging, outperforming previously common approaches in both accuracy and efficiency. There are, however, inherent…

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In complex-valued coherent inverse problems such as synthetic aperture radar (SAR), one may often have prior information only on the magnitude image which shows the features of interest such as strength of reflectivity. In contrast, there…

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This paper presents two approaches for filter design based on stochastic distances for intensity speckle reduction. A window is defined around each pixel, overlapping samples are compared and only those which pass a goodness-of-fit test are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-21 Leonardo Torres , Alejandro C. Frery

We propose a novel algorithm for image reconstruction in radio interferometry. The ill-posed inverse problem associated with the incomplete Fourier sampling identified by the visibility measurements is regularized by the assumption of…

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Image Super-Resolution (SR) provides a promising technique to enhance the image quality of low-resolution optical sensors, facilitating better-performing target detection and autonomous navigation in a wide range of robotics applications.…

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In the next generations of cellular communication networks, higher density of base stations and higher frequency bands will be adopted. If being reflected by targets, the communication signal also brings information of the targets, in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-18 Husheng Li

Nonuniform Fourier data are routinely collected in applications such as magnetic resonance imaging, synthetic aperture radar, and synthetic imaging in radio astronomy. To acquire a fast reconstruction that does not require an online inverse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-05 Anne Gelb , Guohui Song

Fourier imaging is an indirect imaging method which records the diffraction pattern of the object scene coherently in the focal plane of the imaging system and reconstructs the image using computational resources. The spatial resolution,…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-05 Hui Yuan , Alvydas Lisauskas , Mark D. Thomson , Hartmut G. Roskos

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image captioning enables scene-level semantic understanding and plays a crucial role in applications such as military intelligence and urban planning, but its development is limited by the scarcity of…

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In this paper, we present 3D high resolution radar imaging process at millimeter-Wave (mmWave) frequencies by creating the effect of a large aperture synthetically. We use a low cost fully integrated Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-16 Shahrokh Hamidi , Safieddin Safavi-Naeini

Automotive synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can achieve a significant angular resolution enhancement for detecting static objects, which is essential for automated driving. Obtaining high resolution SAR images requires precise ego vehicle…

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The problem of imaging extended targets (sources or scatterers) is formulated in the framework of compressed sensing with emphasis on subwavelength resolution. The proposed formulation of the problems of inverse source/scattering is…

Optics · Physics 2009-09-15 Albert C. Fannjiang

Currently, numerous remote sensing satellites provide a huge volume of diverse earth observation data. As these data show different features regarding resolution, accuracy, coverage, and spectral imaging ability, fusion techniques are…

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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) plays a vital role in remote sensing due to its ability to capture high-resolution images regardless of weather conditions or daylight. However, to transform the raw SAR signals into interpretable imagery,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Khalil Al Salahat , Mohamad El Moussawi , Ali J. Ghandour

Spatial resolution of most imaging devices is fundamentally restricted by diffraction. This limitation is manifested in the loss of high spatial frequency information contained in evanescent waves. As a result, conventional far-field optics…

Optics · Physics 2010-03-16 Leonid Alekseyev , Evgenii Narimanov , Jacob Khurgin

With the advancement of millimeter-wave radar technology, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging at millimeter-wave frequencies has gained significant attention in both academic research and industrial applications. However, traditional SAR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Ayush Jha , Dhanireddy Chandrika , Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula , Chetan Singh Thakur

We consider the problem of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging and motion estimation of complex scenes. By complex we mean scenes with multiple targets, stationary and in motion. We use the usual setup with one moving antenna emitting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Liliana Borcea , Thomas Callaghan , George Papanicolaou

Speckle noise is generated along with the SAR imaging mechanism and degrades the quality of SAR images, leading to difficult interpretation. Hence, despeckling is an indispensable step in SAR pre-processing. Fortunately, supervised learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-26 Liang Chen , Yifei Yin , Hao Shi , Jingfei He , Wei Li

Optical image data have been used by the Remote Sensing workforce to study land use and cover since such data is easily interpretable. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has the characteristic of obtaining images during all-day, all-weather and…

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