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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

Speckle noise poses a significant challenge in maintaining the quality of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, so SAR despeckling techniques have drawn increasing attention. Despite the tremendous advancements of deep learning in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Xuran Hu , Ziqiang Xu , Zhihan Chen , Zhengpeng Feng , Mingzhe Zhu , LJubisa Stankovic

In this paper we investigate the use of discriminative model learning through Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for SAR image despeckling. The network uses a residual learning strategy, hence it does not recover the filtered image, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-04 G. Chierchia , D. Cozzolino , G. Poggi , L. Verdoliva

In recent years, machine learning (ML) algorithms have become widespread in all the fields of remote sensing (RS) and earth observation (EO). This has allowed the rapid development of new procedures to solve problems affecting these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Alessandro Sebastianelli , Maria Pia Del Rosso , Silvia Liberata Ullo , Paolo Gamba

In this paper, we proposed to investigate unsupervised anomaly detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. Our approach considers anomalies as abnormal patterns that deviate from their surroundings but without any prior knowledge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Max Muzeau , Chengfang Ren , Sébastien Angelliaume , Mihai Datcu , Jean-Philippe Ovarlez

This letter presents a method of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image despeckling aimed to preserve the detail information while suppressing speckle noise. This method combines the nonlocal self-similarity partition and a proposed modified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Chengwei Sang , Hong Sun , Quisong Xia

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are inherently corrupted by speckle noise, limiting their utility in high-precision applications. While deep learning methods have shown promise in SAR despeckling, most methods employ a single unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ziqing Ma , Chang Yang , Zhichang Guo , Yao Li

The speckle noise inherent in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery significantly degrades image quality and complicates subsequent analysis. Given that SAR speckle is multiplicative and Gamma-distributed, effectively despeckling SAR…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Junhyuk Heo

Satellite-based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images can be used as a source of remote sensed imagery regardless of cloud cover and day-night cycle. However, the speckle noise and varying image acquisition conditions pose a challenge for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Janne Alatalo , Tuomo Sipola , Mika Rantonen

Benefited from the rapid and sustainable development of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors, change detection from SAR images has received increasing attentions over the past few years. Existing unsupervised deep learning-based methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Junjie Wang , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong , Qian Du , Heng-Chao Li

The wavelet shrinkage denoising approach is able to maintain local regularity of a signal while suppressing noise. However, the conventional wavelet shrinkage based methods are not time-scale adaptive to track the local time-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Mario Mastriani , Alberto E. Giraldez

SAR despeckling is a key tool for Earth Observation. Interpretation of SAR images are impaired by speckle, a multiplicative noise related to interference of backscattering from the illuminated scene towards the sensor. Reducing the noise is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Sergio Vitale , Giampaolo Ferraioli , Vito Pascazio

SAR images are affected by multiplicative noise that impairs their interpretations. In the last decades several methods for SAR denoising have been proposed and in the last years great attention has moved towards deep learning based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-18 Sergio Vitale , Giampaolo Ferraioli , Vito Pascazio

Removing speckle noise from SAR images is still an open issue. It is well know that the interpretation of SAR images is very challenging and despeckling algorithms are necessary to improve the ability of extracting information. An urban…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-17 Giampaolo Ferraioli , Vito Pascazio , Sergio Vitale

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are widely used in remote sensing due to their all-weather, all-day imaging capabilities. However, SAR images are highly susceptible to noise, particularly speckle noise, caused by the coherent imaging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Xuran Hu , Mingzhe Zhu , Djordje Stanković , Zhenpeng Feng , Shouhan Mao , Ljubiša Stanković

In SAR domain many application like classification, detection and segmentation are impaired by speckle. Hence, despeckling of SAR images is the key for scene understanding. Usually despeckling filters face the trade-off of speckle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Sergio Vitale , Giampaolo Ferraioli , Vito Pascazio

Speckle fluctuations seriously limit the interpretability of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Speckle reduction has thus been the subject of numerous works spanning at least four decades. Techniques based on deep neural networks have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Emanuele Dalsasso , Loïc Denis , Florence Tupin

We introduce a deep learning (DL) framework for inverse problems in imaging, and demonstrate the advantages and applicability of this approach in passive synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image reconstruction. We interpret image recon-…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Bariscan Yonel , Eric Mason , Birsen Yazıcı

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery enables all-weather, day-and-night Earth observation; however, it remains difficult to interpret due to speckle noise and other intrinsic imaging artifacts. Sentinel-1 (S1) constitutes one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Juan Francisco Amieva , Christian Ayala , Roberto Del Prete , Mikel Galar

Benefiting from a relatively larger aperture's angle, and in combination with a wide transmitting bandwidth, near-field synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides a high-resolution image of a target's scattering distribution-hot spots.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Xu Zhan , Xiaoling Zhang , Wensi Zhang , Jun Shi , Shunjun Wei , Tianjiao Zeng