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Speckle reduction is a prerequisite for many image processing tasks in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, as well as all coherent images. In recent years, predominant state-of-the-art approaches for despeckling are usually based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Wensen Feng , Yunjin Chen

Small area change detection from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a highly challenging task. In this paper, a robust unsupervised approach is proposed for small area change detection from multi-temporal SAR images using deep learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Xinzheng Zhang , Hang Su , Ce Zhang , Xiaowei Gu , Xiaoheng Tan , Peter M. Atkinson

We describe a novel method for removing speckle (in wavelet domain) of unknown variance from SAR images. The me-thod is based on the following procedure: We apply 1) Bidimentional Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT-2D) to the speckled image,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Mario Mastriani

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides valuable information about the Earth's surface under all weather and illumination conditions. However, the inherent phenomenon of speckle and the presence of sidelobes around bright targets pose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Antoine De Paepe , Pascal Nguyen , Michael Mabelle , Cédric Saleun , Antoine Jouadé , Jean-Christophe Louvigne

Traditional radar imaging methods suffer from the problems of low resolution and poor noise suppression. We propose a new radar imaging method based on Self-supervised deep-learning-assisted compressed sensing (SS-DL-CS-Net). The original…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Shaoyin Huang

Change detection is one of the fundamental applications of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. However, speckle noise presented in SAR images has a much negative effect on change detection. In this research, a novel two-phase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Xinzheng Zhang , Guo Liu , Ce Zhang , Peter M Atkinson , Xiaoheng Tan , Xin Jian , Xichuan Zhou , Yongming Li

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging systems operate by emitting radar signals from a moving object, such as a satellite, towards the target of interest. Reflected radar echoes are received and later used by image formation algorithms to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-02 Andrew Rittenbach , John Paul Walters

Incoherent processing for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a promising approach that enables low implementation costs, simplified hardware designs and operations in high frequency spectrum compared to the conventional imaging methods using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-30 Samia Kazemi , Bariscan Yonel , Birsen Yazici

Recently, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection has become an interesting yet challenging direction due to the presence of speckle noise. Although both traditional and modern learning-driven methods attempted to overcome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Gong Chen , Yanan Zhao , Yi Wang , Kim-Hui Yap

Speckle noise is a fundamental challenge in coherent imaging systems, significantly degrading image quality. Over the past decades, numerous despeckling algorithms have been developed for applications such as Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Ali Zafari , Shirin Jalali

Coherent imaging systems like synthetic aperture radar are susceptible to multiplicative noise that makes applications like automatic target recognition challenging. In this paper, NeighCNN, a deep learning-based speckle reduction algorithm…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-27 Praveen Ravirathinam , Darshan Agrawal , J. Jennifer Ranjani

High-resolution is a key trend in the development of synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which enables the capture of fine details and accurate representation of backscattering properties. However, traditional high-resolution SAR imaging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-11 Guoru Zhou , Zhongqiu Xu , Yizhe Fan , Zhe Zhang , Xiaolan Qiu , Bingchen Zhang , Kun Fu , Yirong Wu

This work deals with unsupervised image deblurring. We present a new deblurring procedure on images provided by low-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) or simply by multimedia in presence of multiplicative (speckle) or additive noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-03 Mario Mastriani

At present, the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image classification method based on convolution neural network (CNN) has faced some problems such as poor noise resistance and generalization ability. Spiking neural network (SNN) is one of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Jiankun Chen , Xiaolan Qiu , Chibiao Ding , Yirong Wu

Deep learning approaches show unprecedented results for speckle reduction in SAR amplitude images. The wide availability of multi-temporal stacks of SAR images can improve even further the quality of denoising. In this paper, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-28 Emanuele Dalsasso , Inès Meraoumia , Loïc Denis , Florence Tupin

We consider a bistatic configuration with a stationary transmitter transmitting unknown waveforms of opportunity and a moving receiver, and present a Deep Learning (DL) framework for passive synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging. Existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-05 Bariscan Yonel , Eric Mason , Birsen Yazici

The inevitable feature deviation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image due to the special imaging principle (depression angle variation) leads to poor recognition accuracy, especially in few-shot learning (FSL). To deal with this problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Xiangyu Zhou , Qianru Wei , Yuhui Zhang

SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) imaging plays a central role in Remote Sensing due to, among other important features, its ability to provide high-resolution, day-and-night and almost weather-independent images. SAR images are affected from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Luis Gomez , Raydonal Ospina , Alejandro C. Frery

This research tackles the challenge of speckle noise in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) space data, a prevalent issue that hampers the clarity and utility of SAR images. The study presents a comparative analysis of six distinct speckle noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Sanjjushri Varshini R , Rohith Mahadevan , Bagiya Lakshmi S , Mathivanan Periasamy , Raja CSP Raman , Lokesh M

The speckle phenomenon remains a major hurdle for the analysis of SAR images. The development of speckle reduction methods closely follows methodological progress in the field of image restoration. The advent of deep neural networks has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-29 Loïc Denis , Emanuele Dalsasso , Florence Tupin