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The land cover classification has played an important role in remote sensing because it can intelligently identify things in one huge remote sensing image to reduce the work of humans. However, a lot of classification methods are designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Fan Zhang , MinChao Yan , Chen Hu , Jun Ni , Fei Ma

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

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) imagery based on microwaves reflected off ground targets is becoming increasingly important in remote sensing for ground movement estimation. However, the reflections are contaminated by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Subhayan Mukherjee , Aaron Zimmer , Xinyao Sun , Parwant Ghuman , Irene Cheng

A deep neural networks based method is proposed to convert single polarization grayscale SAR image to fully polarimetric. It consists of two components: a feature extractor network to extract hierarchical multi-scale spatial features of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Qian Song , Feng Xu , Ya-Qiu Jin

Recently, deep learning methods have achieved superior performance for Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar(PolSAR) image classification. Existing deep learning methods learn PolSAR data by converting the covariance matrix into a feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Junfei Shi , Wei Wang , Haiyan Jin , Mengmeng Nie , Shanshan Ji

In recent years, Deep Learning (DL) based methods have received extensive and sufficient attention in the field of PolSAR image classification, which show excellent performance. However, due to the ``black-box" nature of DL methods, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Jinqi Zhang , Fangzhou Han , Di Zhuang , Lamei Zhang , Bin Zou , Li Yuan

A Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) sensor is able to collect images in different polarization states, making it a rich source of information for target characterization. PolSAR images are inherently affected by speckle.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Adugna G. Mullissa , Claudio Persello , Johannes Reiche

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown good performance in polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image classification due to the automation of feature engineering. Excellent hand-crafted architectures of CNNs incorporated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Hongwei Dong , Siyu Zhang , Bin Zou , Lamei Zhang

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

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 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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Romina Gaburro , Patrick Healy , Shraddha Naidu , Clifford Nolan

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

Random Ferns -- as a less known example of Ensemble Learning -- have been successfully applied in many Computer Vision applications ranging from keypoint matching to object detection. This paper extends the Random Fern framework to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Pengchao Wei , Ronny Hänsch

The inherently complex-valued nature of Polarimetric SAR data necessitates using specialized algorithms capable of directly processing complex-valued representations. However, this aspect remains underexplored in the deep learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Quentin Gabot , Joana Frontera-Pons , Jérémy Fix , Chengfang Ren , Jean-Philippe Ovarlez

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

We have developed a nonlocal algorithm for estimating polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) covariance matrices on single-look complex (SLC) format resolution. The algorithm is inspired by recent work with guided nonlocal means…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Jørgen A. Agersborg , Stian Normann Anfinsen , Jane Uhd Jepsen

As a representation learning method, nearest regularized subspace(NRS) algorithm is an effective tool to obtain both accuracy and speed for PolSAR image classification. However, existing NRS methods use the polarimetric feature vector but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 Junfei Shi , Haiyan Jin

In synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection, it is quite challenging to exploit the changing information from the noisy difference image subject to the speckle. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale spatial pooling (MSSP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Jia-Wei Chen , Rongfang Wang , Fan Ding , Bo Liu , Licheng Jiao , Jie Zhang

Although deep learning has achieved great success in image classification tasks, its performance is subject to the quantity and quality of training samples. For classification of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Sheng-Jie Liu , Haowen Luo , Qian Shi