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The analysis of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery is an important step in remote sensing applications, and it is a challenging problem due to its inherent speckle noise. One typical solution is to model the data using the $G_I^0$…
This paper focuses on stochastic proximal gradient methods for optimizing a smooth non-convex loss function with a non-smooth non-convex regularizer and convex constraints. To the best of our knowledge we present the first non-asymptotic…
A computationally efficient method to solve non-convex programming problems with linear equality constraints is presented. The proposed method is based on a recursively feasible and descending sequential convex programming procedure proven…
Speckle noise, inherent in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, degrades the performance of the various SAR image analysis tasks. Thus, speckle noise reduction is a critical preprocessing step for smoothing homogeneous regions while…
This paper presents measures to reduce the computation time of automotive synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging to achieve real-time capability. For this, the image formation, which is based on the Back-Projection algorithm, was thoroughly…
Anomaly detection is a key research challenge in computer vision and machine learning with applications in many fields from quality control to radar imaging. In radar imaging, specifically synthetic aperture radar (SAR), anomaly detection…
The convergence rate is analyzed for the SpaSRA algorithm (Sparse Reconstruction by Separable Approximation) for minimizing a sum $f (\m{x}) + \psi (\m{x})$ where $f$ is smooth and $\psi$ is convex, but possibly nonsmooth. It is shown that…
Image inverse problems have numerous applications, including image processing, super-resolution, and computer vision, which are important areas in image science. These application models can be seen as a three-function composite…
In this paper we propose an extension of the iteratively regularized Gauss--Newton method to the Banach space setting by defining the iterates via convex optimization problems. We consider some a posteriori stopping rules to terminate the…
This paper proposes a precise signal recovery method with multilayered non-convex regularization, enhancing sparsity/low-rankness for high-dimensional signals including images and videos. In optimization-based signal recovery, multilayered…
We introduce a primal-dual framework for solving linearly constrained nonconvex composite optimization problems. Our approach is based on a newly developed Lagrangian, which incorporates \emph{false penalty} and dual smoothing terms. This…
We consider the problem of minimizing the sum of an average function of a large number of smooth convex components and a general, possibly non-differentiable, convex function. Although many methods have been proposed to solve this problem…
In this paper, we provide a candidate solution to obtain the coefficients of the conformal mapping for a lower half plane containing a symmetrical noncircular cavity using penalty function method and modified Particle Swarm Method. The…
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…
In a recent article series, the authors have promoted convex optimization algorithms for radio-interferometric imaging in the framework of compressed sensing, which leverages sparsity regularization priors for the associated inverse problem…
In this work, we investigate an efficient numerical approach for solving higher order statistical methods for blind and semi-blind signal recovery from non-ideal channels. We develop numerical algorithms based on convex optimization…
Incoherent processing for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a promising approach that enables low implementation costs, simplified hardware designs and operations in high frequency spectrum compared to the conventional imaging methods using…
We propose a proximal approach to deal with a class of convex variational problems involving nonlinear constraints. A large family of constraints, proven to be effective in the solution of inverse problems, can be expressed as the lower…
We propose a penalty-based smoothing framework for convex nonsmooth functions with a supremum structure. The regularization yields a differentiable surrogate with controlled approximation error, a single-valued dual maximizer, and explicit…
This letter proposes to estimate low-rank matrices by formulating a convex optimization problem with non-convex regularization. We employ parameterized non-convex penalty functions to estimate the non-zero singular values more accurately…