English
Related papers

Related papers: Edge Preserving CNN SAR Despeckling Algorithm

200 papers

In this paper, the advancements in structured light beams recognition using speckle-based convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been presented. Speckle fields, generated by the interference of multiple wavefronts diffracted and…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-02 Venugopal Raskatla , Purnesh Singh Badavath , Vijay Kumar

This paper presents a despeckling method for Sentinel-1 GRD images based on the recently proposed framework "SAR2SAR": a self-supervised training strategy. Training the deep neural network on collections of Sentinel 1 GRD images leads to a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-28 Nicolas Gasnier , Emanuele Dalsasso , Loïc Denis , Florence Tupin

Recently, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection has become an interesting yet challenging direction due to the presence of speckle noise. Although both traditional and modern learning-driven methods attempted to overcome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Gong Chen , Yanan Zhao , Yi Wang , Kim-Hui Yap

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) imagery for estimating ground movement, based on microwaves reflected off ground targets is gaining increasing importance in remote sensing. However, noise corrupts microwave reflections…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Subhayan Mukherjee , Aaron Zimmer , Navaneeth Kamballur Kottayil , Xinyao Sun , Parwant Ghuman , Irene Cheng

At present, the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image classification method based on convolution neural network (CNN) has faced some problems such as poor noise resistance and generalization ability. Spiking neural network (SNN) is one of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Jiankun Chen , Xiaolan Qiu , Chibiao Ding , Yirong Wu

A Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) sensor is able to collect images in different polarization states, making it a rich source of information for target characterization. PolSAR images are inherently affected by speckle.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Adugna G. Mullissa , Claudio Persello , Johannes Reiche

We consider the problem in Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) of identifying and classifying objects located on the ground by means of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Specifically, we adopt a single scattering approximation to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Romina Gaburro , Patrick Healy , Shraddha Naidu , Clifford Nolan

The speckle phenomenon remains a major hurdle for the analysis of SAR images. The development of speckle reduction methods closely follows methodological progress in the field of image restoration. The advent of deep neural networks has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-29 Loïc Denis , Emanuele Dalsasso , Florence Tupin

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) imagery based on microwaves reflected off ground targets is becoming increasingly important in remote sensing for ground movement estimation. However, the reflections are contaminated by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Subhayan Mukherjee , Aaron Zimmer , Xinyao Sun , Parwant Ghuman , Irene Cheng

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are widely used in remote sensing due to their all-weather, all-day imaging capabilities. However, SAR images are highly susceptible to noise, particularly speckle noise, caused by the coherent imaging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Xuran Hu , Mingzhe Zhu , Djordje Stanković , Zhenpeng Feng , Shouhan Mao , Ljubiša Stanković

This letter introduces a physics-informed self-supervised framework for sonar image despeckling that reformulates despeckling as residual consistency in the homomorphic log domain. By constraining the log-ratio residual to obey…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Swapna Pillai , Siddharth Singh Savner , Sujit Kumar Sahoo

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

Change detection is one of the fundamental applications of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. However, speckle noise presented in SAR images has a much negative effect on change detection. In this research, a novel two-phase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Xinzheng Zhang , Guo Liu , Ce Zhang , Peter M Atkinson , Xiaoheng Tan , Xin Jian , Xichuan Zhou , Yongming Li

Driver assistance systems as well as autonomous cars have to rely on sensors to perceive their environment. A heterogeneous set of sensors is used to perform this task robustly. Among them, radar sensors are indispensable because of their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Johanna Rock , Mate Toth , Elmar Messner , Paul Meissner , Franz Pernkopf

Speckle filtering is generally a prerequisite to the analysis of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Tremendous progress has been achieved in the domain of single-image despeckling. Latest techniques rely on deep neural networks to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 Inès Meraoumia , Emanuele Dalsasso , Loïc Denis , Rémy Abergel , Florence Tupin

Multiplicative noise, also known as speckle or pepper noise, commonly affects images produced by synthetic aperture radar (SAR), lasers, or optical lenses. Unlike additive noise, which typically arises from thermal processes or external…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-16 An Vuong , Thinh Nguyen

Recently, change detection methods for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) have gained increasing research attention. However, existing CNN-based methods neglect the interactions among…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Desen Meng , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong , Qian Du , Heng-Chao Li

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have made great progress for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images change detection. However, sampling locations of traditional convolutional kernels are fixed and cannot be changed according to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Junjie Wang , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong

The segmentation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is a longstanding yet challenging task, not only because of the presence of speckle, but also due to the variations of surface backscattering properties in the images. Tremendous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Gui-Song Xia , Gang Liu , Wen Yang

The cost-effectiveness and practical harmlessness of ultrasound imaging have made it one of the most widespread tools for medical diagnosis. Unfortunately, the beam-forming based image formation produces granular speckle noise, blurring,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Sanketh Vedula , Ortal Senouf , Alex M. Bronstein , Oleg V. Michailovich , Michael Zibulevsky