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Target detection is the front-end stage in any automatic target recognition system for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery (SAR-ATR). The efficacy of the detector directly impacts the succeeding stages in the SAR-ATR processing chain.…

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In marine surveillance, applications span military and civilian domains, including ship detection, marine traffic control, and disaster management. Optical and hyperspectral satellites are key for this purpose. This paper focuses on ship…

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To address the challenges of low detection accuracy and high false positive rates of transmission lines in UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) images, we explore the linear features and spatial distribution. We introduce an enhanced stochastic…

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Responding to the challenge of detecting unusual radar targets in a well identified environment, innovative anomaly and novelty detection methods keep emerging in the literature. This work aims at presenting a benchmark gathering common and…

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Very high-resolution (VHR) satellite imagery has emerged as a powerful tool for monitoring marine animals on a large scale. However, existing deep learning-based whale detection methods usually require manually created, high-quality…

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Detecting and tracking ground objects using earth observation imagery remains a significant challenge in the field of remote sensing. Continuous maritime ship tracking is crucial for applications such as maritime search and rescue, law…

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The complex marine environment exacerbates the challenges of object detection manifold. Marine trash endangers the aquatic ecosystem, presenting a persistent challenge. Accurate detection of marine deposits is crucial for mitigating this…

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Speckle is a multiplicative noise which affects all coherent imaging modalities including Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. The presence of speckle degrades the image quality and adversely affects the performance of SAR image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Malsha V. Perera , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Vishal M. Patel

This work outlines and assesses several methods for the detection of manoeuvres in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) from surveillance radar data. To be able to detect manoeuvres, the main starting assumption is that the object under analysis has an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Jose M. Montilla , Julio C. Sanchez , Rafael Vazquez , Jorge Galan-Vioque , Javier Rey Benayas , Jan Siminski

Maritime object detection faces essential challenges due to the small target size and limitations of labeled real RGB data. This paper will present a real-time object detection system based on RT-DETR, enhanced by employing augmented…

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Effective monitoring of whale populations is critical for conservation, but traditional survey methods are expensive and difficult to scale. While prior work has shown that whales can be identified in very high-resolution (VHR) satellite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Caleb Robinson , Kimberly T. Goetz , Christin B. Khan , Meredith Sackett , Kathleen Leonard , Rahul Dodhia , Juan M. Lavista Ferres

Addressing airport traffic jams is one of the most crucial and challenging tasks in the remote sensing field, especially for the busiest airports. Several solutions have been employed to address this problem depending on the airplane…

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Through-wall synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging is of significant interest for security purposes, in particular when using multi-static SAR systems consisting of multiple distributed radar transmitters and receivers to improve…

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The robust estimation of the mounting angle for millimeter-wave automotive radars installed on moving vehicles is investigated. We propose a novel signal processing pipeline that combines radar and inertial measurement unit (IMU) data to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Simin Zhu , Satish Ravindran , Lihui Chen , Alexander Yarovoy , Francesco Fioranelli

Fluctuations of the glacier calving front have an important influence over the ice flow of whole glacier systems. It is therefore important to precisely monitor the position of the calving front. However, the manual delineation of SAR…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Andreas Hartmann , Amirabbas Davari , Thorsten Seehaus , Matthias Braun , Andreas Maier , Vincent Christlein

This article proposes novel sparsity-aware space-time adaptive processing (SA-STAP) algorithms with $l_1$-norm regularization for airborne phased-array radar applications. The proposed SA-STAP algorithms suppose that a number of samples of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Z. Yang , R. C. de Lamare

In this letter, we propose a pseudo-siamese convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture that enables to solve the task of identifying corresponding patches in very-high-resolution (VHR) optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-23 Lloyd H. Hughes , Michael Schmitt , Lichao Mou , Yuanyuan Wang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Coherent imaging systems like synthetic aperture radar are susceptible to multiplicative noise that makes applications like automatic target recognition challenging. In this paper, NeighCNN, a deep learning-based speckle reduction algorithm…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-27 Praveen Ravirathinam , Darshan Agrawal , J. Jennifer Ranjani

Segmentation of marine oil spills in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is a challenging task because of the complexity and irregularities in SAR images. In this work, we aim to develop an effective segmentation method which addresses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Fang Chen , Aihua Zhang , Heiko Balzter , Peng Ren , Huiyu Zhou

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…

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