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We propose a novel approach for aerial video action recognition. Our method is designed for videos captured using UAVs and can run on edge or mobile devices. We present a learning-based approach that uses customized auto zoom to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Xijun Wang , Ruiqi Xian , Tianrui Guan , Celso M. de Melo , Stephen M. Nogar , Aniket Bera , Dinesh Manocha

We propose a new convolutional neural network (CNN) which performs coarse and fine segmentation for end-to-end synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) system. In recent years, many CNNs for SAR ATR using deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Hidetoshi Furukawa

Advancements in Sonar image capture have enabled researchers to apply sophisticated object identification algorithms in order to locate targets of interest in images such as mines. Despite progress in this field, modern sonar automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-05 John McKay , Raghu Raj , Vishal Monga , Jason Isaacs

The absence of publicly available, large-scale, high-quality datasets for Synthetic Aperture Radar Automatic Target Recognition (SAR ATR) has significantly hindered the application of rapidly advancing deep learning techniques, which hold…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yongxiang Liu , Weijie Li , Li Liu , Jie Zhou , Bowen Peng , Yafei Song , Xuying Xiong , Wei Yang , Tianpeng Liu , Zhen Liu , Xiang Li

We present a novel Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) system using open-vocabulary object detection and classification models. A primary advantage of this approach is that target classes can be defined just before runtime by a non-technical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Anthony Palladino , Dana Gajewski , Abigail Aronica , Patryk Deptula , Alexander Hamme , Seiyoung C. Lee , Jeff Muri , Todd Nelling , Michael A. Riley , Brian Wong , Margaret Duff

GATR (Globally-scalable Automated Target Recognition) is a Lockheed Martin software system for real-time object detection and classification in satellite imagery on a worldwide basis. GATR uses GPU-accelerated deep learning software to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Gary Chern , Austen Groener , Michael Harner , Tyler Kuhns , Andy Lam , Stephen O'Neill , Mark Pritt

Synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition (SAR-ATR) systems have rapidly evolved to tackle incremental recognition challenges in operational settings. Data scarcity remains a major hurdle that conventional SAR-ATR techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 George Karantaidis , Athanasios Pantsios , Ioannis Kompatsiaris , Symeon Papadopoulos

Automotive synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems are rapidly emerging as a candidate technological solution to enable a high-resolution environment mapping for autonomous driving. Compared to lidars and cameras, automotive-legacy radars…

Research on the intelligent interpretation of all-weather, all-time Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is crucial for advancing remote sensing applications. In recent years, although Visual Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Xiaokun Zhang , Yi Yang , Ziqi Ye , Baiyun , Xiaorong Guo , Qingchen Fang , Ruyi Zhang , Xinpeng Zhou , Haipeng Wang

Recent studies have utilized deep learning (DL) techniques to automatically extract features from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, which shows great promise for enhancing the performance of SAR automatic target recognition (ATR).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Hongwei Dong , Fangzhou Han , Lingyu Si , Wenwen Qiang , Lamei Zhang

Video synthetic aperture radar (ViSAR) has attracted substantial attention in the moving target detection (MTD) field due to its ability to continuously monitor changes in the target area. In ViSAR, the moving targets' shadows will not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Shangqu Yan , Chenyang Luo , Yaowen Fu , Wenpeng Zhang , Wei Yang , Ruofeng Yu

Reliable automatic target segmentation in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery has played an important role in the SAR fields. Different from the traditional methods, Spectral Residual (SR) and CFAR detector, with the recent adavance in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-16 Chenwei Wang , Jifang Pei , Yulin Huang , Jianyu Yang

With the present revival of interest in bistatic radar systems, research in that area has gained momentum. Given some of the strategic advantages for a bistatic configuration, and tech- nological advances in the past few years, large-scale…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-01-04 Amit Kumar Mishra , Bernard Mulgrew

Existing deep learning-based methods can capture shared features from optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images for spatial alignment. However, optical-SAR registration remains challenging under large geometric deformations, because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zhuoyu Cai , Dou Quan , Ning Huyan , Pei He , Shuang Wang , Licheng Jiao

This paper discusses the challenges of detecting and categorizing small drones with radar automatic target recognition (ATR) technology. The authors suggest integrating ATR capabilities into drone detection radar systems to improve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Jiangkun Gong , Jun Yan , Deyong Kong , Deren Li

We present a framework for simulating realistic inverse synthetic aperture radar images of automotive targets at millimeter wave frequencies. The model incorporates radar scattering phenomenology of commonly found vehicles along with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-19 Neeraj Pandey , Shobha Sundar Ram

Automatic Target Detection (ATD) and Recognition (ATR) from Thermal Infrared (TI) imagery in the defense and surveillance domain is a challenging computer vision (CV) task in comparison to the commercial autonomous vehicle perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Aon Safdar , Usman Akram , Waseem Anwar , Basit Malik , Mian Ibad Ali

Synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition (SAR ATR) has seen significant performance improvements with deep learning. However, the black-box nature of deep SAR ATR introduces low confidence and high risks in decision-critical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Chenwei Wang , Renjie Xu , Congwen Wu , Cunyi Yin , Ziyun Liao , Deqing Mao , Sitong Zhang , Hong Yan

Synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition (SAR ATR) methods fall short with limited training data. In this letter, we propose a causal interventional ATR method (CIATR) to formulate the problem of limited SAR data which helps us…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Chenwei Wang , Xin Chen , You Qin , Siyi Luo , Yulin Huang , Jifang Pei , Jianyu Yang

Existing synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition (SAR ATR) methods have been effective for the classification of seen target classes. However, it is more meaningful and challenging to distinguish the unseen target classes,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Chenwei Wang , Siyi Luo , Jifang Pei , Xiaoyu Liu , Yulin Huang , Yin Zhang , Jianyu Yang