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Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image segmentation is currently of great importance in image processing for remote sensing applications. However, it is a challenging task due to two main reasons. Firstly, the label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Haixia Bi , Lin Xu , Xiangyong Cao , Yong Xue , Zongben Xu

Classification of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images is an active research area with a major role in environmental applications. The traditional Machine Learning (ML) methods proposed in this domain generally focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Mete Ahishali , Serkan Kiranyaz , Turker Ince , Moncef Gabbouj

In this paper we are proposing classification algorithm for multifrequency Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) image. Using PolSAR decomposition algorithms 33 features are extracted from each frequency band of the given image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Tushar Gadhiya , Sumanth Tangirala , Anil K. Roy

POLSAR image has an advantage over optical image because it can be acquired independently of cloud cover and solar illumination. PolSAR image classification is a hot and valuable topic for the interpretation of POLSAR image. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Xu Liu , Licheng Jiao , Dan Zhang , Fang Liu

Existing polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image classification methods cannot achieve satisfactory performance on complex scenes characterized by several types of land cover with significant levels of noise or similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Wenshuai Chen , Shuiping Gou , Xinlin Wang , Licheng Jiao , Changzhe Jiao , Alina Zare

This paper presents a technique for reducing speckle in Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) imagery using Nonlocal Means and a statistical test based on stochastic divergences. The main objective is to select homogeneous pixels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-18 Leonardo Torres , Sidnei J. S. Sant'Anna , Corina C. Freitas , Alejandro C. Frery

Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) images are an important source of information. Speckle noise gives SAR images a granular appearance that makes interpretation and analysis hard tasks. A major issue is the assessment of…

Applications · Statistics 2019-05-01 M. G. Palacio , S. B. Ferrero , A. C. Frery

Speckle suppression in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is a key processing step which continues to be a research topic. A wide variety of methods, using either spatially-based approaches or transform-based strategies, have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Alejandro Mestre-Quereda , Juan M. Lopez-Sanchez

The approaches for analyzing the polarimetric scattering matrix of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) data have always been the focus of PolSAR image classification. Generally, the polarization coherent matrix and the covariance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Xu Liu , Licheng Jiao , Xu Tang , Qigong Sun , Dan Zhang

The annotation of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images is a labor-intensive and time-consuming process. Therefore, classifying PolSAR images with limited labels is a challenging task in remote sensing domain. In recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Yuchen Wang , Ziyi Guo , Haixia Bi , Danfeng Hong , Chen Xu

A polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) system, which uses multiple images acquired with different polarizations in both transmission and reception, has the potential to improve the description and interpretation of the observed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Dehbia Hanis , Luca Pallotta , Augusto Aubry , Aichouche Belhadj-Aissa , Antonio De Maio

For polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) image classification, it is a challenge to classify the aggregated terrain types, such as the urban area, into semantic homogenous regions due to sharp bright-dark variations in intensity. The aggregated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-02 Fang Liu , Junfei Shi , Licheng Jiao , Hongying Liu , Shuyuan Yang , Jie Wu , Hongxia Hao , Jialing Yuan

In this paper, we introduce an iterative speckle filtering method for polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) images based on the bilateral filter. To locally adapt to the spatial structure of images, this filter relies on pixel similarities in both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-11-04 Olivier D'Hondt , Stéphane Guillaso , Olaf Hellwich

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images encompass valuable information that can facilitate extensive land cover interpretation and generate diverse output products. Extracting meaningful features from PolSAR data poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Mohammed Q. Alkhatib , M. Sami Zitouni , Mina Al-Saad , Nour Aburaed , Hussain Al-Ahmad

Despeckling is a crucial noise reduction task in improving the quality of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Directly obtaining noise-free SAR images is a challenging task that has hindered the development of accurate despeckling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Shunya Kato , Masaki Saito , Katsuhiko Ishiguro , Sol Cummings

Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) images are establishing as an important source of information in remote sensing applications. The most complete format this type of imaging produces consists of complex-valued Hermitian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-04 Leonardo Torres , Antonio C. Medeiros , Alejandro C. Frery

We propose a new method for PolSAR (Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar) imagery classification based on stochastic distances in the space of random matrices obeying complex Wishart distributions. Given a collection of prototypes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Luis Gomez , Luis Alvarez , Luis Mazorra , Alejandro C. Frery

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) has achieved a prominent position as a remote imaging method. However, PolSAR images are contaminated by speckle noise due to the coherent illumination employed during the data acquisition.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Abraão D. C. Nascimento , Michelle M. Horta , Alejandro C. Frery , Renato J. Cintra

Optical image data have been used by the Remote Sensing workforce to study land use and cover since such data is easily interpretable. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has the characteristic of obtaining images during all-day, all-weather and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Battula Balnarsaiah , G Rajitha

PolSAR data presents unique challenges due to its rich and complex characteristics. Existing data representations, such as complex-valued data, polarimetric features, and amplitude images, are widely used. However, these formats often face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yuqing Wang , Zhongling Huang , Shuxin Yang , Hao Tang , Xiaolan Qiu , Junwei Han , Dingwen Zhang
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