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Semantic segmentation is a key technology for autonomous vehicles to understand the surrounding scenes. The appealing performances of contemporary models usually come at the expense of heavy computations and lengthy inference time, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yuanduo Hong , Huihui Pan , Weichao Sun , Yisong Jia

Detecting and classifying targets in video streams from surveillance cameras is a cumbersome, error-prone and expensive task. Often, the incurred costs are prohibitive for real-time monitoring. This leads to data being stored locally or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Lukas Cavigelli , Dominic Bernath , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

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

High-resolution LiDAR data plays a critical role in 3D semantic segmentation for autonomous driving, but the high cost of advanced sensors limits large-scale deployment. In contrast, low-cost sensors such as 16-channel LiDAR produce sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Alexandros Gkillas , Nikos Piperigkos , Aris S. Lalos

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been extensively and successfully applied to the task of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection. However, conventional convolutional layers are inherently limited by their local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Baogui Huan , Chuanzheng Gong , Dezhong Chen , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong , Qian Du

Airports have an important role in both military and civilian domains. The synthetic aperture radar (SAR) based airport detection has received increasing attention in recent years. However, due to the high cost of SAR imaging and annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Daochang Wang , Fan Zhang , Fei Ma , Wei Hu , Yu Tang , Yongsheng Zhou

Effective oil spill segmentation in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is critical for marine oil pollution cleanup, and proper image representation is helpful for accurate image segmentation. In this paper, we propose an effective oil…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Fang Chen , Heiko Balzter , Peng Ren , Huiyu Zhou

In this paper, we propose a novel variational active contour model based on I-divergence-TV model to segment Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images with multiplicative gamma noise, which hybrides edge-based model with region-based model. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Guangming Liu

Inland water body segmentation from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is an important task needed for several applications, such as flood mapping. While SAR sensors capture data in all-weather conditions as high-resolution images,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-07 Siddharth Kothari , Srinivasan Murali , Sankalp Kothari , Ujjwal Verma , Jaya Sreevalsan-Nair

We propose a novel approach for generating high quality visible-like images from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images using Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) architectures. The proposed approach is based on a cascaded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Puyang Wang , Vishal M. Patel

Deep learning (DL) in remote sensing has nowadays become an effective operative tool: it is largely used in applications such as change detection, image restoration, segmentation, detection and classification. With reference to synthetic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-19 Sergio Vitale , Giampaolo Ferraioli , Vito Pascazio

We propose a new convolutional neural network (CNN) which performs coarse and fine segmentation for end-to-end synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) system. In recent years, many CNNs for SAR ATR using deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Hidetoshi Furukawa

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) have recently shown state of the art performance in high level vision tasks, such as image classification and object detection. This work brings together methods from DCNNs and probabilistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-08 Liang-Chieh Chen , George Papandreou , Iasonas Kokkinos , Kevin Murphy , Alan L. Yuille

In this paper, to break the limit of the traditional linear models for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image despeckling, we propose a novel deep learning approach by learning a non-linear end-to-end mapping between the noisy and clean SAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Qiang Zhang , Qiangqiang Yuan , Jie Li , Zhen Yang , Xiaoshuang Ma

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are often contaminated by a multiplicative noise known as speckle. Speckle makes the processing and interpretation of SAR images difficult. We propose a deep learning-based approach called, Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Puyang Wang , He Zhang , Vishal M. Patel

This paper presents the FPGA design of a convolutional neural network (CNN) based road segmentation algorithm for real-time processing of LiDAR data. For autonomous vehicles, it is important to perform road segmentation and obstacle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Yecheng Lyu , Lin Bai , Xinming Huang

For 3D Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging, one typical approach is to achieve the cross-track 1D focusing for each range-azimuth pixel after obtaining a stack of 2D complex-valued images. The cross-track focusing is the main difficulty…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-28 Jingkun Gao , Bin Deng , Yuliang Qin , Hongqiang Wang , Xiang Li

Accurate segmentation of MR brain tissue is a crucial step for diagnosis, surgical planning, and treatment of brain abnormalities. Automatic and reliable segmenta-tion methods are required to assist doctor. Over the last few years, deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Yang Deng , Yao Sun , Yongpei Zhu , Shuo Zhang , Mingwang Zhu , Kehong Yuan

Road scene understanding is a critical component in an autonomous driving system. Although the deep learning-based road scene segmentation can achieve very high accuracy, its complexity is also very high for developing real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Ping-Rong Chen , Hsueh-Ming Hang , Sheng-Wei Chan , Jing-Jhih Lin

Semantic image segmentation is an essential component of modern autonomous driving systems, as an accurate understanding of the surrounding scene is crucial to navigation and action planning. Current state-of-the-art approaches in semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Tobias Pohlen , Alexander Hermans , Markus Mathias , Bastian Leibe