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Understanding the extent of urban flooding is crucial for assessing building damage, casualties and economic losses. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology offers significant advantages for mapping flooded urban areas due to its ability…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Jie Zhao , Ming Li , Yu Li , Patrick Matgen , Marco Chini

SAR images are highly sensitive to observation configurations, and they exhibit significant variations across different viewing angles, making it challenging to represent and learn their anisotropic features. As a result, deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Zhengxin Lei , Feng Xu , Jiangtao Wei , Feng Cai , Feng Wang , Ya-Qiu Jin

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Lucian Chauvin , Somil Gupta , Angelina Ibarra , Joshua Peeples

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery has diverse applications in land and marine surveillance. Unlike electro-optical (EO) systems, these systems are not affected by weather conditions and can be used in the day and night times. With the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Abu Md Niamul Taufique , Navya Nagananda , Andreas Savakis

Simulation is an invaluable tool for radio-frequency system designers that enables rapid prototyping of various algorithms for imaging, target detection, classification, and tracking. However, simulating realistic radar scans is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Tianshu Huang , John Miller , Akarsh Prabhakara , Tao Jin , Tarana Laroia , Zico Kolter , Anthony Rowe

NVidia RTX platform has been changing and extending the possibilities for real time Computer Graphics applications. It is the first time in history that retail graphics cards have full hardware support for ray tracing primitives. It still a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Vinicius da Silva , Luiz Velho

Optical remote sensing and Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) remote sensing are crucial for earth observation, offering complementary capabilities. While optical sensors provide high-quality images, they are limited by weather and lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Hannuo Zhang , Huihui Li , Jiarui Lin , Yujie Zhang , Jianghua Fan , Hang Liu

A technique is presented for producing synthetic images from numerical simulations whereby the image resolution is adapted around prominent features. In so doing, adaptive image ray-tracing (AIR) improves the efficiency of a calculation by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 E. R. Parkin

The recognition or understanding of the scenes observed with a SAR system requires a broader range of cues, beyond the spatial context. These encompass but are not limited to: imaging geometry, imaging mode, properties of the Fourier…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-11 Mihai Datcu , Zhongling Huang , Andrei Anghel , Juanping Zhao , Remus Cacoveanu

Designing and validating sensor applications and algorithms in simulation is an important step in the modern development process. Furthermore, modern open-source multi-sensor simulation frameworks are moving towards the usage of video-game…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Wouter Jansen , Nico Huebel , Jan Steckel

This paper introduces and analyzes the concept of a cognitive inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) ensuring spectral compatibility in crowded electromagnetic environments. In such a context, the proposed approach alternates between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-14 Massimo Rosamilia , Augusto Aubry , Alessio Balleri , Antonio De Maio , Marco Martorella

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) is the key technique for remote sensing image recognition. The state-of-the-art works exploit the deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for SAR ATR, leading to high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Bingyi Zhang , Sasindu Wijeratne , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna , Carl Busart

Neighbor search is of fundamental important to many engineering and science fields such as physics simulation and computer graphics. This paper proposes to formulate neighbor search as a ray tracing problem and leverage the dedicated ray…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Yuhao Zhu

Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) in Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images becomes a very challenging problem owing to containing high level noise. In this study, a machine learning-based method is proposed to detect different moving and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Umut Özkaya

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery to monitor oil spills are some methods that have been proposed for the West African sub-region. With the increase in the number of oil exploration companies in Ghana (and her neighbors) and the rise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Griffith S. Klogo , Akpeko Gasonoo , Isaac K. E. Ampomah

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data enables large-scale surveillance of maritime vessels. However, near-real-time monitoring is currently constrained by the need to downlink all raw data, perform image focusing, and subsequently analyze it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Fabian Kresse , Georgios Pilikos , Mario Azcueta , Nicolas Floury

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art accuracy in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Automatic Target Recognition (ATR). However, their high computational cost, latency, and memory footprint make its deployment…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Sachini Wickramasinghe , Tian Ye , Cauligi Raghavendra , Viktor Prasanna

Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) for military applications is one of the core processes towards enhancing intelligencer and autonomously operating military platforms. Spurred by this and given that Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 O. Kechagias-Stamatis , N. Aouf

Rotating Synthetic Aperture Radar (ROSAR) can generate a 360$^\circ$ image of its surrounding environment using the collected data from a single moving track. Due to its non-linear track, the Back-Projection Algorithm (BPA) is commonly used…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Wei Zhao , Cai Wen , Quan Yuan , Rong Zheng

Neural surface reconstruction (NSR) has recently shown strong potential for urban 3D reconstruction from multi-view aerial imagery. However, existing NSR methods often suffer from geometric ambiguity and instability, particularly under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Da Li , Chen Yao , Tong Mao , Jiacheng Bao , Houjun Sun